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Wide-leg jeans

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The style resurfaced in the late 2010s and early 2020s alongside other baggy attire; possibly due to the shift to more comfortable clothing during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic and retro revival fashion trends that started in the late 2010s like the
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in that the entire length of the leg is large in circumference whereas flare or bell-bottom jeans become wider below the knee. Wide-leg jeans can be considered to be a variant of baggy jeans, which were also popular in the 1990s.
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to the dancehalls as a protest against wartime rationing, and because it was easy for gang members to conceal weapons beneath a baggy suit.
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among white men. However, they continued to be popular among African-American and Latino men throughout the mid 2000s until about 2013.
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Beginning in the early 20th century, several styles of wide-leg pants gained rebellious connotations. During the 1920s, wide
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during the same time. They continued to be popular in the 2000s, but by 2003 baggy jeans started to be replaced by
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popular from the early 1980s to the 2000s, and also during a revival in the 2020s.
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era which lasted from the late 90s to the early-to-mid 2000s along with
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wide-leg jeans have a circumference at the hem of 23" to 26"; whereas
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Wide-leg jeans and pants are at least 20" in circumference at the
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In the United Kingdom, during the 1990s fad they were known as "
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In the 1980s, baggy jeans entered mainstream fashion as the
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Baggy pants
Bell-bottoms
Baggies (trousers)
Baggy Trousers
clothing
Oxford bags
Hearties
Oxford
Cambridge University
knickerbockers
rugby football
zoot suiters
Pachuchos
hepcats
high waisted pants

Hammer pants
parachute pants
breakdancing
skaters
hardcore punks
ravers
rappers
acid wash
metalheads
bondage pants
nu metal
pop punk
boot-cut jeans and trousers
baggies

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