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Koret was born in 1900 to a Jewish family in Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). [1] He immigrated to the United States with his family as a baby in 1901 where he grew up poor in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. [1] [2] Koret moved to San Francisco at age 17, [1] began working for his father's men's clothing company. In 1937 the two founded ...
In the fall of 2010 at Westside Middle School in Memphis, Tennessee, the policy on handling sagging pants is for students to pull them up or get "Urkeled", a reference to the character Steve Urkel of the 1990s television show Family Matters. In this practice, teachers would pull their pants up and attach them there using zip ties. Students ...
Straight-leg: Jeans which are the same width at the leg opening as they are at the bottom of the leg, making for a slightly baggy fit. [58] Boyfriend: Often with a mid-low waist, boyfriend jeans have a baggy, "borrowed from the boys" fit. [57] Flared, or bell-bottomed: Often fitted around the thigh area, then become wider from the knee down. [59]
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 ...
The British English term, short trousers, is used, only for shorts that are a short version of ordinary trousers (i.e., pants or slacks in American English). For example: tailored shorts, often lined, as typically worn as part of a school uniform for boys up to their early teens, [1] [2] [3] and by servicemen and policemen in tropical climates.
Goodnites Boxers (for boys) and Sleep Shorts (for girls) were a product manufactured by Kimberly-Clark from 2007–2009, and distributed from 2007–2010. They were designed to look and feel like boxers. They were blue for boys and pink for girls. The outer covering was cloth-like to look like a pair of boxers. The inside was a pull-up underwear.
Compression shorts and tights are usually worn by athletes. They are form-fitting garments and cover the wearer's waist to mid or lower thigh, similar to cycling shorts. They are referred to as spats in Japan and safety shorts in South Korea. Many are available with a cup pocket, a sewn-in pocket that can hold a protective cup.
Boyfriend-style clothes are designed to be looser or boxier and tend to be oversized – giving the appearance that one is wearing a "boyfriend's clothing". The style can be traced back to the 1960s, when Marilyn Monroe wore her boyfriend's loosely-fitting jeans , which contrasted her feminine looks with a masculine aesthetic. [ 1 ]