What are the toughest school trousers for a 5 year old boy?

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DS has come home on Friday and then on Monday with his knees through his trews. They were actually cotton trousers, but thick ones - Gap sale in black and Boden hand me downs in grey. He went through a pair of M and S black Skinkind trousers (cotton) and also a grey pair of John Lewis (polyester) last term.

I tend to buy cotton for him if I can because he has eczema, but would be happy at the moment buying 100% Teflon if that meant he had long trousers to wear that last more than 2 weeks. They need to be black or grey.

Any advice welcome!

Next. I've had pairs that have been passed down and worn by all three of them at some point but have never had a pair go at the knee.

DS is hard on school trousers, and I cant recommend the M and S ones with wool highly enough, not scratchy, despite the wool content, and they dont need ironing after coming out of the dryer. Adjustable waist too.

I was about to say next too, I bought ds a pair in September from there and he's had some from m&s and asda the next ones are still going strong and worn most days

The next jeans style ones. Have to say I caught my DS walking round the playground on his knees at school. So that solved the mystery of why his trousers had gone through so quickly at the knees and it hasn't happened since I told him why it was a bad idea to do it!

Next were good for ds in the past but i have also been happy with his teflon coated Tesco trousers that he is wearing this year

Next and Tesco have hard wearing trousers IME.

Just to add my son has been wearing his Next shorts every week for 4 terms now (he doesn't like trousers) and they were worn by his cousin before him for 6 terms and they look like new. Quite a few people have asked me where I've got them as they look really smart and never seem to wear out

Next boys "jeans style" get my vote too, especially since I can buy them in a slim fit for my super skinny boy.

Ds is in reception as has the most bashed up legs ever.

He has sainsburys trousers as I was convinced he would fall and rip them. They are wearing really well so far. :)

Yup sainsburys are great. DS puts holes through the knees of all his trousers but the sainsbos combat style ones are yet to succumb...

Sorry to lower the tone but my vote goes with Asda! Ds in reception too, told every day of some incident or another in the playground. They are covered in mud etc but no holes and he only has 2 pairs because wasn't sure which size to go for initially. Sure he will grow out of them before he wears them out!

Second/third? Next. I have 3 boys, the Next ones are on boy no.2 and look great for passing into boy no.3. Have tried Asds/Tesco/M&S, none of them stand up to wear as much as Next. And I like the sim fit jeans style.

I'm a convert to Next after being given some second hand ones for ds2. They still looked like new even after he'd grown out of them.

I will never buy trousers of any kind from M & S again - I used to get the boys school trousers from there years ago but was sick of them wearing out quickly at the very bottom. As for the hems, someone needs to do something as they're not fit for purpose - it's just a kind of cheap oversewing stitch instea of a proper running stitch. The hems come down completely at the slightly tug of the thread - life is too short to sew hems back up by hand when the only reason they came down were that the cheapest type of stitch has been used in the first place and they Don't do a good enough job.

I bought some women's trousers recently for work and stupidly didn't check the type of stitch on the hem. I caught my heel in the stitching the second time of wearing them and the whole hem came down before I could get home from work. They went in the bin and I will NEVER buy trousers from there again.

Next school trousers all the way. Last at the knee AND the hem stays up.