TRAVEL TEST

WHAT: Rohan Men’s Advance Jeans, £100, rohan.com

WHERE: Alaska and Seattle, USA.

EXPERIENCE: The Milton Keynes firm’s latest incarnation of jeans designed for travelling in are made with Thermolite and Coolmax temperature regulating technology, which warms up a chilly day and takes the heat out of a hot one.

Which is pretty much perfect for an early summer cruise ship visit to Alaska, where all four seasons in a day is entirely feasible!

The polycotton blend has elastane to add some forgiving stretch for comfort – they felt like a second skin – and offers shape recovery so you don’t look like you’ve slept in your clothes, even if you actually have done so on the long flight there!

Having napped on the way out to join the ship in Seattle they looked fresh on arrival, and they were just as good after a much longer sleep on the return flight to Heathrow.

I really liked the security of the hidden zipped rear pocket for my wallet and, having worn them every day in Alaska and Seattle (bar one day when they needed laundering after a muddy 4x4 off- road kart driving experience in an Alaskan rainforest), they stood up to a very packed itinerary of The Last Frontier tours and excursions and sightseeing in the city, yet remained smart casual enough for some less formal bars and restaurants on the ship.

My skinny jeans days are over, so these were spot on fit-wise – neither too baggy nor too tight.

Alaska was remarkably rainfree, but I did get wet in a Seattle ‘walk-through’ water feature in a city square and they dried reasonably quickly afterwards, as per the fast-drying claim.

Available in black, dark denim and mid denim.

QUIBBLES: None.

VERDICT: Brilliant travel jeans, will be a go-to on trips for years.