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2. Parachute pants - Wikipedia

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   Bugle Boy parachute pants are identifiable by having the word "Countdown" on a small tag above the rear pocket's zipper. Teenage boys were the main wearers of parachute pants. They typically cost $25-$30 a pair (US$80-$112 in 2024, accounting inflation). During the height of their popularity, 1984–1985, boys wearing parachute pants were ...

3. Hammer pants - Wikipedia

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   Hammer pants are modified baggy pants, tapered at the ankle with a sagging rise, made suitable for hip hop dancing. [1] They were popularized in the 1980s and 1990s by American rapper MC Hammer . [ 2 ]

4. Bugle Boy - Wikipedia

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   They also popularized parachute pants during the breakdancing fad of the early 80s, in a line called Countdown. Bugle Boy also produced men's and boys' tops, but was best known for its varieties of jeans and jean shorts. [citation needed] In 2001, Bugle Boy closed all 215 of its U.S. outlet stores in an agreement with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.

5. 1980s in fashion - Wikipedia

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   Parachute pants are a style of trousers characterized by the use of ripstop nylon or extremely baggy cuts. In the original tight-fitting, extraneously zippered style of the late 1970s and early 1980s, "parachute" referred to the pants' synthetic nylon material. In the later 1980s, "parachute" may have referred to the extreme bagginess of the pant.

6. Wide-leg jeans - Wikipedia

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   Wide-leg jeans. In the 1980s, baggy jeans entered mainstream fashion as the Hammer pants and parachute pants worn by rappers to facilitate breakdancing.In the 1990s these jeans became even baggier and were worn by skaters, hardcore punks, [6] ravers [7] and rappers to set themselves apart from the skintight acid wash drainpipe jeans worn by metalheads. [8]

7. Cher Wore the Most Controversial Pants to the 2024 ... - AOL

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   Sporting a pair of baggy leather parachute pants with zippers at the hem and patchwork pieces in gray, black, and purple, the singer accessorized with three black grommet belts and matching black ...