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trousers| Garment designed to fit the body from the waist to the bottom of the leg with separate tube-shaped sections for each leg. Straight ankle-length trousers were introduced in the 1800s, but were not considered acceptable attire for men until the late 19th century. Prior to this date men had worn stockings and breeches. |
| An attempt was made to introduce a version of trousers for women in the 19th century, but they did not become fashionable until the 1920s when Coco Chanel introduced loose, baggy trousers for leisure activities. Women working in factories and on the land during World War II wore trousers but they did not become generally popular for women until the 1960s. By the 1970s trousers had become an acceptable part of formal and casual wear. Examples of trouser designs are Oxford bags, pedal pushers, and flares. |
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| And I, the long time intimate of John Barleycorn, knew just what he promised me--maggots of fancy, dreams of power, forgetfulness, anything and everything save whirling washers, revolving mangles, humming centrifugal wringers, and fancy starch and interminable processions of duck trousers moving in steam under my flying iron. Their yearly clothing consisted of two coarse linen shirts, one pair of linen trousers, like the shirts, one jacket, one pair of trousers for winter, made of coarse negro cloth, one pair of stockings, and one pair of shoes; the whole of which could not have cost more than seven dollars. Genevieve slipped on a pair of Joe's shoes, light-soled and dapper, and laughed with Lottie, who stooped to turn up the trousers for her. |