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Throughout history, the role of trousers is a constant change for women. The first appearance of trousers in recorded history is among nomadic steppe-people in Western Europe. Steppe people were a group of nomads of various different ethnic groups that lived in the Eurasian grasslands.
This law has been used to arrest and prosecute women wearing trousers. Thirteen women including journalist Lubna al-Hussein were arrested in Khartoum in July 2009 for wearing trousers; ten of the women pleaded guilty and were flogged with ten lashes and fined 250 Sudanese pounds apiece. Lubna al-Hussein considers herself a good Muslim and ...
Flipkart slowly grew in prominence and was receiving 100 orders per day by 2008. [16] Flipkart acquired WeRead in 2010 from Lulu.com that helped it build its foundational strength which was the digital retail of books. This space was otherwise only shared by very limited number of players at that time in the market, such as Landmark and ...
Palazzo pants for women first became a popular trend in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [1] The style was reminiscent of the wide-legged cuffed pants worn by some women fond of avant-garde fashions in the 1930s and 1940s, particularly actresses such as Katharine Hepburn, Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. [2]
Black tie cummerbund A cummerbund is a broad waist sash , usually pleated , which is often worn with single-breasted dinner jackets (or tuxedos ). [ 1 ] The cummerbund was adopted by British military officers in colonial India , where they saw it worn by sepoys (Indian soldiers) of the British Indian Army . [ 2 ]
Myntra continues to operate as a standalone brand under Flipkart's ownership, focusing primarily on "fashion-conscious" consumers. [ 14 ] In 2014, Myntra's portfolio included about 1,50,000 products of over 1,000 brands, with a distribution area of around 9,000 pincodes in India. [ 15 ]
Harem pants or harem trousers are baggy, long pants caught in at the ankle. Early on, the style was also called a harem skirt . [ 2 ] The original so-called 'harem pants/skirts' were introduced to Western fashion by designers such as Paul Poiret around 1910, although they themselves were inspired by Middle East styles, and by şalvar ( Turkish ...
In 2015, ModCloth removed the plus-size term from its site. [39] The company's decision was supported by a ModCloth survey, which concluded that almost two-thirds of women were embarrassed to shop in a separate section for plus-labelled clothing. [40] The plus-size clothing was integrated into the greater site and made shoppable through size ...