Carrot pants
Carrot trousers have a cut that approximates a carrot in the silhouette of each trouser leg . It is cut wider in the hip area to taper towards the ankles . The width in the hip area is z. B. with the help of pleats (and sometimes rather thin, soft fabrics that cover the hip area wider and more elastic). Particularly in very slim people, there is a clear emphasis on the hips . Carrot trousers with particularly wide cut are often deeper, in the area of the thighs or knees, and narrow downwards from there, so that the thigh area is emphasized more strongly instead of the hip area.
While hip emphasis is traditionally associated with femininity as a secondary gender characteristic, tapered pants came into fashion for (especially young) men for the first time in the early 1980s . This happened in the wake of youth subcultures such as New Romantic (British) and Popper (German), which associated themselves with a gentle, almost androgynous emphasis on sexual attractiveness . The intention was to deliberately differentiate it from the immediately preceding and as proletarian despised conceptions of youthful masculinity as hardship and rebellion (cf. rocker , punk ), as well as their contrary trouser fashion (very tight, straight, inelastic hip cuts; coarse materials such as jeans or leather ).
A well-known provider in the 1980s was Vanilia , and in the 1990s also Phönix Un Protagonista . The trousers from the last-named manufacturer again emphasize male body features due to their large thigh width.
Carrot jeans
In addition, similarly cut jeans came into fashion in the 1980s. The Japanese supplier Edwin in particular became popular as a result. In the 1990s, the Diesel brand's Saddle , which was cut even wider, was widespread. In the 2000s, a model from the Picaldi company based on the Diesel cut was able to find distribution in part of the hip-hop scene . These pants became particularly popular through the rapper Bushido . In the late 2010s, carrot jeans are back in fashion.
Body pants
During the great success of carrot pants and jeans in the 1980s, similarly cut sports pants were also offered. The boom in the fitness scene also resulted in a differentiated fitness fashion . In addition to the rather tight cuts of aerobic fashion, the high-seated and carrot-shaped, wide-cut body pants have become more of a popular item of clothing in the bodybuilding scene. At the top they usually have a generous waistband in the style of professional boxer pants. Body pants were often combined with generous shirts, rag-tops and belt bags. Body pants from the Uncle Sam and Platinum brands were particularly well known . They were to some extent in the 1990s, instead of classic sweat pants or track suits worn.