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Chino cloth (/ ˈ tʃ iː n oʊ / CHEE-noh) is a twill fabric originally made from pure cotton. The most common items made from it, trousers , are widely called chinos . [ 1 ] Today it is also found in cotton-synthetic blends.
In North America, Australia and South Africa, [7] pants is the general category term, whereas trousers (sometimes slacks in Australia and North America) often refers more specifically to tailored garments with a waistband, belt-loops, and a fly-front. In these dialects, elastic-waist knitted garments would be called pants, but not trousers (or ...
A fly (UK: flies) (short for flyers) is a strip of material covering an opening on the crotch area of trousers, closed by a zipper (often), or buttons. On men's garments, the fly always opens on the wearer's right side; on women's garments, it may open either on the left or on the right.
Before the invention of the fly front, they were made with flaps, 5 inches (13 cm) to 8 inches (20 cm) wide, called falls. [6] However, with the advent of modern stretch materials such as spandex, many modern breeches have no flare and fit skin-tight. In some cases, zippers and velcro fastenings have replaced laces and buttons at the calves as ...
Marchitelli used a look he designed for Atlanta Falcons safety Justin Simmons, as an example, matching a bold-patterned peacoat to pants in the same fabric and wearing it as an eye-catching set.
Low-rise is a style of clothing designed to sit low on, or below, the hips. The style can also be called lowcut , hipster , or hip-hugger , [ 1 ] and can apply to garments worn by all genders. The term can be applied to all garments that cover the wearer's crotch area, including trousers, jeans, shorts , skirts , panties , briefs , bikinis ...
Bar tacks, such as these machine-sewn ones, may be used to reinforce the bottom of a fly opening.. In sewing, bar tack, also written bar-tack or bartack, refers to a series of stitches used to reinforce areas of a garment that may be subject to stress or additional wear. [1]
“By shifting tasks to contractors, companies pay a price for a service rather than wages for work. That means they don’t have to think about training, career advancement or benefit provision.” This transformation is affecting the entire economy, but millennials are on its front lines.