The short answer on What to Wear with Joggers: pick one anchor piece, keep the palette to two colours, and let the shoes decide how formal the whole thing reads. A flat front reads sharper; pleats give you room to sit. Get the rise right and the length is a ten minute alteration. The groups below run from the decision that matters most to the ones you make afterwards.

What decides this is rise, break and fabric weight. Everything else is preference. Two from the first group show the range: Ramy Brook's Emmy Canvas Ankle Length Pant at $295, and Jag's Demi Cord Pant at $99. The first is the considered buy; the second is the one to start with. A flat front reads sharper; pleats give you room to sit. Get the rise right and the length is a ten minute alteration. A higher price mostly buys materials and finishing, and occasionally it buys nothing at all.

A trouser that breaks once looks intentional. Twice looks long. From the second group, Ramy Brook's Joss Printed Pant ($197) is the one that earns its place, because it works in more than one context without being restyled. The third group is smaller and deliberately narrower, trousers, for the decisions you make after the main one. None of this needs the whole group. One piece from each is usually enough.

There are 20 trousers here from 12 brands, $20 to $390, all in stock when this was written. We would not buy all of them, and neither should you. Andie's Swim's The Suva Pant - Floral Lace - Limeade at $20 is the low-risk way in, and Nili Lotan's SHON COTTON PANT at $390 only makes sense if this is a category you already use constantly. Read as a set, they get you close to What to Wear with Joggers without any single purchase being compulsory. Nothing here is included because it is famous, and price is not used as a proxy for quality anywhere on this page. If you take one thing away: one considered purchase beats three hedged ones.