US Army OG-507 pattern utility trousers

Olive drab military utility trousers, cut straight with a high rise and a loose leg meant to be bloused into a boot. Two front patch pockets with slash openings, two patch pockets at the back with buttoned flaps, belt loops, a single waist button over a zip fly.

The care label reads 50% polyester, 50% cotton, preshrunk, hang to dry, with an RN number. That fabric and this pattern are the OG-507, the poly-cotton utility trouser that replaced the 100% cotton sateen OG-107 around 1975 and ran into the mid-1980s. Being straight about what is missing: the contract label that normally carries the DLA number and the stamped size is gone, so the pair cannot be dated to a year or proven to be issue rather than contract-pattern. It is sold on what it is, at a price that reflects that. The waist comes to 28 inches around.

Condition: worn, with an even colour and no thinning at the seat or knees. The hems are original - unaltered, even and unbroken, which on surplus trousers is the first thing to check and the most common thing to be wrong.