Pleated trousers have what marketers call a PR problem — meaning the reputation is worse than the actual product. Nothing wrong with the design. Nothing wrong with the fit. Just decades of men associating pleats with their dad’s office pants from 1995 and refusing to look any closer. Here is what actually happened. Somewhere in the 90s, pleated trousers got cut badly, wear baggy and paired with terrible shoes. Men “Pleated Trousers Men Have a PR Problem, Not a Fit Problem”