Wide Leg Pants

Wide leg pants are one of those pieces of fashion that keeps coming back up in style adopted by a new subculture. Wide leg pants have gone through a lot of distinct name changes throughout their varied incarnations but prove to still be favorite even today.

The best place to look for a new pair of wide leg, or baggy, pants is online. You won't find a bigger choice anywhere else, especially at a brick and mortar store. If you are willing to look nearby you can roughly always find a great deal on a pair of pants, and even if there is no deal, they will roughly always be economy even at base price.

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Depending on what part of the world you are in, baggy pants have been called a few things. The first time pants came into style that had ultimate noticeable bagginess was in the 1990s. At this time, they were called baggy pants.

The name baggy pants was for the most part a phenomenon in the United States. For example, in the United Kingdom these were roughly always called "baggies' rather than baggy pants. Today in the Uk they are naturally referred to as wide leg jeans however, the term baggies faded with their primary popularity.

The first subculture that popularized the baggy jean look was arguably the alternative style that appeared during the 1990s. This culture overlapped a lot with skateboarders who were also ordinarily seen wearing baggy jeans.

Today there has been a wee bit of a 180. Skateboarders and alternative people often wear skinny jeans while baggy jeans have been picked up by the hip-hop subculture. The main brand behind this revival has been Jnco. Because of them, many other brands focused on selling baggy pants to these youth have developed.

The defining characteristic of baggy jeans if obviously the wide legs though this is most apparent when you think the hem. Many people have compared these to the bell bottom jeans which were highly favorite during the seventies. However, the big distinction is that bell bottoms were tight above the knee.

Baggy jeans often have a hem which is at least twenty inches. Though there are also jeans with a hem of over twenty six inches which are regularly called ultimate wide leg pants.

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