Wide-leg trousers
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Wide-leg jeans, colloquially called baggy pants, are a style of clothing popular from the early 1980s to the 2000s, and also during a revival in the 2020s.
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18th century French Sans-Culotte revolutionary wearing baggy pantaloons as a statement of equality
Australian woman, 1940s
Pakistani Islamic clothing, 2009
Bell-bottoms
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Bell-bottoms are a style of trousers that become wider from the knees downward, forming a bell-like shape of the trouser leg.
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…early-to-mid 2000s along with pop punk during the same time. They continued to be popular in the 2000s, but by 2003 baggy jeans started to be replaced by boot-cut jeans and trousers among white men. However, they continued to be popular among African-American and Latino men throughout the mid 2000s until about 2013. In the United…
American singer Cher (pictured with Sonny Bono) wearing bell-bottomed trousers, c. 1968
Illustration of Royal Navy sailors in uniform 1854
German journeymen, right: a carpenter, 2006
A young woman wears a pair of bell-bottoms, ca. 1970s