No one seems to have mentioned bifurcated garments...19th C. review and 
philosophy of women wearing male garments...including Bible Quotations...Lots 
of interesting examples there!



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From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On Behalf Of 
Rickard, Patty [ricka...@mountunion.edu]
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:30 AM
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Subject: Re: [h-cost] Terms for pants

I guess I should read all the posts before replying  - fun memories.
Patty

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Behalf Of Rickard, Patty
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:06 AM
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Subject: Re: [h-cost] Terms for pants

And let's not forget clam-diggers - similar to either capri pants or 
pedal-pushers, also from around the 1950s.
Patty

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Behalf Of aqua...@patriot.net
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 4:07 PM
To: Historical Costume
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Terms for pants

There was a short fad for knickers in the mid to late 1970s for women.
Gauchos were another one, loose pants that ended below the knee - sort of like 
a split skirt.
For both, you might wear them with a blouse and matching vest.

Culottes were a skirt/shorts combo, just above the knee. They might have a wide 
leg or a separate panel for the skirt effect. Sporty, I remember my mom wearing 
them for golfing.

Capri pants are high ankle or low calf length, and are currently fashionable, 
and were various times back as far as the 1950s. I think of Audrey Hepburn in 
them.

Pedal pushers were long-ish shorts, I think just below the knee? But a regular 
pants width, not flared and not gathered. I remember them from the 1960s, but 
could be earlier.

-Carol


> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Sybella <mae...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In the '80s people called pants that ended just below the knee
>> "knickers."
>
> Assuming you mean 1980s: I recall "Capri pants" for women,not knickers.
>
>> Before that, they were "peddle pushers." And I think there's at least
>> one other name for them. "Knee highs," maybe?  It seems every time
>> they come back into fashion, they are called something else.
>
> Probably, pedal-pushers as that what my mom called the things they
> went bicycling in in the 1950s.
>
> Also, Knickers strikes me as something an early 20th c golfer or
> upperclass sport hunter (male) might wear.
> --cin
> Cynthia Barnes
> cinbar...@gmail.com

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