Stirrup pants
The stirrup pants , also wedge pants called, is a pant having a heel band on each leg end, the so-called bridge which holds the pants tensioned and prevented from riding up of the pant leg when worn. Originally, uniform trousers were provided with a bar.
In the 1930s, stirrup trousers were also discovered as sports and leisure trousers (especially ski trousers ), which went hand in hand with the introduction of highly elastic fabrics. Today, stirrup trousers are almost exclusively worn as women's trousers - most recently in fashion in the 1980s.
For the mountain troops of the Bundeswehr, the knee trousers with calf stockings were replaced by the stirrup trousers in addition to the gray uniform.
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