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2. Parachute pants - Wikipedia

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   Bugle Boy did make pants for girls and women, though they remained most popular with males. They went out of fashion almost as quickly as they arrived, with the fad lasting about two years. Their slim, fitted look was eventually overtaken by much looser, baggy-style pants. [1] Parachute pants played a pivotal role in 1980s fashion. [citation ...

3. 1980s in fashion - Wikipedia

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   Parachute pants are a style of trousers characterized by the use of ripstop nylon or extremely baggy cuts. In the original tight-fitting, extraneously zippered style of the late 1970s and early 1980s, "parachute" referred to the pants' synthetic nylon material. In the later 1980s, "parachute" may have referred to the extreme bagginess of the pant.

4. Bugle Boy - Wikipedia

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   They also popularized parachute pants during the breakdancing fad of the early 80s, in a line called Countdown. Bugle Boy also produced men's and boys' tops, but was best known for its varieties of jeans and jean shorts. [citation needed] In 2001, Bugle Boy closed all 215 of its U.S. outlet stores in an agreement with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.

5. Hammer pants - Wikipedia

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   They were popularized in the 1980s and 1990s by American rapper MC Hammer. [2] They are often colloquially referred to as parachute pants, although that also refers to a different style, and MC Hammer stated in an interview in 2016 he did not like the term and prefers to refer to them as Hammer pants. [3]

6. Wide-leg jeans - Wikipedia

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   Wide-leg jeans. In the 1980s, baggy jeans entered mainstream fashion as the Hammer pants and parachute pants worn by rappers to facilitate breakdancing.In the 1990s these jeans became even baggier and were worn by skaters, hardcore punks, [6] ravers [7] and rappers to set themselves apart from the skintight acid wash drainpipe jeans worn by metalheads. [8]

7. Talk:Parachute pants - Wikipedia

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   Parachute pants were an early to mid 80's fashion. Showed up mainstream sometime around 1982-1984 and died within a couple years. The pants McHammer wore were a totally different fad all on their own showed up around 1990-1992. The big super baggy pants worn by McHammer is some what of a religious dress worn in arab countries.