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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 ...
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.
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 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 ...
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 ...
Some cargo pants are made with removable lower legs allowing conversion into shorts. In 1980, cargo shorts were marketed as ideal for the sportsman or fisherman, with the pocket flaps ensuring that pocket contents were secure and unlikely to fall out. [6] By the mid-to-late 1990s, cargo shorts found popularity among mainstream men's fashion. [7]
Culottes are an item of clothing worn on the lower half of the body. The term can refer to either split skirts , historical men's breeches , or women's underpants ; this is an example of fashion-industry words taken from designs across history, languages and cultures, then being used to describe different garments, often creating confusion ...
Knickerbockers have been popular in other sporting endeavors, particularly golf, rock climbing, cross-country skiing, fencing and bicycling. In cycling, they were standard attire for nearly 100 years, with the majority of archival photos of cyclists in the era before World War I showing men wearing knickerbockers tucked into long socks.