Harem pants or harem trousers are baggy, long pants caught in at the ankle. Early on, the style was also called a harem skirt. Inspired by Middle East clothing styles, especially şalvar, so-called 'ha
The Harem Girl, drawn by Bert Green for Puck, March 1911. A Western woman wearing the then newly fashionable 'harem' look, although the style would not catch on for long term in the West.
19th century Algerian woman wearing the traditional pants which inspired 'harem pants'.
Paul Poiret harem pants, 1911
Harem pants shown in Arabian Nights
Hakama are a type of traditional Japanese clothing for the lower body.
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A Japanese woman wearing hakama with a furisode top at Tsurugaoka Hachimangū
A miko and male priest, both wearing hakama; note the lack of koshi-ita (腰板)
International students in formal montsuki-haori-hakama. Sendaihira hakama, some of them ombré