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[101] A classic example of a passive-tracking app that will thus not work properly for many women is a step-counter (which records how many steps the phone user has taken in a day while walking), because women's trousers often do not have large enough pockets to always be carrying around that phone with the app tracking the steps on it. [102]
All types of garments for the lower body which divide into two parts, one for each leg. Compare with the categories for Skirts and Dresses, which do not divide.For one-piece garments which include trousers or shorts for the lower part (like an overall), see One-piece suits.
In modern trousers, men's models generally have pockets for carrying small items such as wallets, keys or mobile phones, but women's trousers often do not – and sometimes have what are called Potemkin pockets, a fake slit sewn shut. [67] If there are pockets, they are often much smaller than in men's clothes. [67]
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 ...
Cargo pants or cargo trousers, also sometimes called combat pants or combat trousers after their original purpose as military workwear, [1] [2] are loosely cut pants originally designed for rough work environments and outdoor activities, distinguished by numerous large utility pockets for carrying tools.
(Women who wear jackets on these occasions may also wear boutonnières, but more typically a woman would wear a corsage.) Nowadays, lapel pins are worn more often than flowers on business suits . Traditionally, a boutonnière is worn pushed through the lapel buttonhole (on the left, the same side as a pocket handkerchief ) and the stem is held ...
Formal trousers were originally introduced in the first half of the 19th century as a complement to the then widely worn frock coat.As established formal day attire trousers, they were subsequently introduced to go with the morning dress, which in turn gradually replaced the frock coat as formal day attire standard by 20th century, along with its semi-formal equivalent black lounge suit.
Women responded with a variety of costumes, many inspired by the pantaloons of Turkey, and all including some form of pants. By the summer of 1850, various versions of a short skirt and trousers, or "Turkish dress", were being worn by readers of the Water-Cure Journal as well as women patients at the nation's health resorts. After wearing the ...