ASOS INSIDERS WEAR UTILITY THREADS

As a serious skatehead, straight-cut utility pants are basically a second skin for @asos_joshua. The skate scene embraced solid, scuff-resistant worker pants in a big way in the '90s, making cult brands of traditional trade apparel companies like Dickies and Carhartt. Two decades on, the workpant remains a skate staple and a utilitarian steez go-to. Joshua amps up the 9-5 vibes with the sort of tan short-sleeve shirt you might wear to pump gas and a big ol’ cup of morning joe.

With this get-up, @asos_nawal is checking a couple of utility trend boxes. There’s the hi-vis vest straight out of the FW18 emergency orange trend, which he’s layered over the more timelessly proletarian combination of a blue pin-stripe worker jacket and matching worker pants. The jacket’s capacious pockets and riff on the name tag deliver bonus utility points, while posing in front of a giant crane is a strictly optional means of further boosting your blue-collar credentials.

Of course, utility style isn’t all about looking like you’re heading off for a day’s graft — functional fits, with their clean lines and classic silhouettes, are a great foundation for building something a little more "for the weekend" too. Look at @asos_ruddy here: he’s taken a Dickies utility jacket and teamed it with another hardware-store staple — overalls. Only these overalls are done up in a distinctly off-duty teddy-fur texture, which cleverly ties in the funkier touches elsewhere (canary-yellow Nikes and bold patterned polo shirt). Stellar stuff — give that man a half-day off.