These are quite good, though quite basic in design. There are also notable flaws with the fabric. I've also reviewed the straight version and this review is quite similar with a few differences around the cut.
First I like the cut on the slim version quite a lot (a little more than the straight version). They feel like a robust well structured pant.
However, I was a little disappointed by the pockets — they are extremely typical, with none of the added features one might expect from many other pants these days. e.g., no phone pocket, no coin pocket, no concealed zippered pockets no inline thigh pocket. This does not make the pants dysfunctional it just means that they are not as good as they could be.
The main issue with them is that the fabric pills (even after just a few weeks), and I've noticed it does it too on the straight cut in exactly the same way. This is disappointing because, given the points above, the main competitive value of these pants over others on the market is the material and it looks like thats just not holding up in regular wear. I will of course continue to wear them and see how things go, but it makes me skeptical that I'd buy more in the future.
As a last point on the fabric, they are advertised as 'stretch' but I would argue that they barely stretch and I would not count on this. I can do lite exercise in them but they are far less stretchy than other pants in this category on the market now.
I really want to like these pants. I love the prospect of a high quality wool pant that stretches, but they don't really hold up to that in the current format and I worry about durability.
