The traditional choice is a mid grey twill wool for odd trousers for use in the office. For casual wear, light grey flannel. Both, however, are very warm. I prefer high twist wool. But I have a length of grey wool twill on its way to me now for trousers.

I suppose any good tailor can make good pants. I suggest you try Binwani. I had these made by ALT. I provided the cloth.

Cloth = "mid grey twill wool"

Mid grey because it goes with all manner of shirts. Twill because it is the strongest weave. A good tailor should understand this terminology.

Alright, so I picked up my 2 shirts of cheapo cotton from MBT3.

Everything is OK. I love them. However, 2 weak points:

1) The cloths are cheap and look cheap.
2) The buttons are machine sewn, shankless, so they cause the buttonholes to pucker. MBT3 said he will sew them again by hand, but I said I am in serious need of shirts and cannot wait another week.

I went to the biggest button seller in Malaysia. It's not a "kedai peralatan jahitan". It's a "kedai butang". Bought a suit set of MOPs, 2 types of glueless collar interlining, some needles and polyester thread (to redo the buttons myself, better than Loke-chai), and 3 pairs of STAR (Czech) trouser buckles.

Then I went and bought 2 lengths of premium shirting cotton. Kinda expensive, RM175 for both together. And I bough 1 length of white cotton/linen cloth from Kamdar. And another dozen MOP shirting buttons.

Shit. Shouldn't go to TAR so often.