Bell-bottoms

Bell-bottoms are trousers that are further from the knee down in the course. They get their name probably from the fact that the pants legs hit while walking together. Today, the impact refers to the funnel- shaped course. Consider a shock trousers from the front or the side, as it is reminiscent of the shape of a trumpet or bell - hence also the English name is derived from Bell Bottoms.

Workwear

Flares are the pants worn by the carpenter as workwear. Here, the shock is to prevent dirt from getting into the shoes. A variant is the origin Veddel pants. Traditionally, long pants of sailors have a stroke.

Fashion trend

In the fashion scene, the flares had their heyday in the 1960s and 1970s and are considered as a fashion symbol of the hippie movement; then they were often also equipped in the lower leg area with a so-called " pleat ", which was partly held together by a silver chain. The trumpet-like expansion began only below the knee. Until the early 1980s, they had completely disappeared from the streets.

A Renaissance they experienced in the 1990s and were very popular especially among young people. Especially in the techno scene developed alongside revivals of hippie versions a shape that just were on commercial raves standard: pants made ​​of nylon material, often glossy, with one stroke, the downward continuously widens from the buttocks.

• Pants
• Kostümkunde of the 20th and 21st centuries
• Workwear
• Zunftbekleidung
• Kostümkunde 1960