Culottes
A culottes are pants whose legs are cut so wide that they look deceptively similar to a skirt .
The trouser skirt appeared around 1900 and was initially called split skirt or French jupe-culotte . It was worn by women for cycling and hiking and was created as a compromise between the skirt as the usual female legwear and the pants as practical clothing for cycling, which was seen as fashion at the time. The culottes were a practical alternative to the skirt until the First World War , as wearing trousers was taboo for women up to that time . The culottes experienced a surge in popularity in the 1960s , but ebbed again in the 1990s.
Special forms of the culottes include:
- The Rheingrafenhose, worn exclusively by men, in the 17th century .
- The Japanese Hakama , which is also used in various martial arts such as . Aikidō , Kendō or Iaidō is used as exercise clothing.
See also
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Wiktionary: culottes - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
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- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Rock am Rad ... The birth of the culottes, accessed on November 11, 2013
