Ah, are bell bottom pants/jeans coming back into fashion???

[a kennedy]

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Am getting my onslot of fall and holiday catalogs and lotsa of them are showing a lot more bell bottoms. Bell bottoms really are more flattering for some of us. I might have to try on my old bells to see if they still fit, and I suppose I should add here, I KNOW THEY WON’T FIT.

[In_The_Wind]

1. They started coming back last year as soft leggings.

I may do a bit of sewing this Winter. The jeans/pants I packed away this Spring are too long this Fall. It took a while to figure out the extra length is because my tush is smaller.

[a kennedy]

2. Good for you, is this on purpose?? Ya working out, dieting??

My length keeps getting shorter because my tush is getting bigger.

[In_The_Wind]

5. Nope! Stress killed my appetite.

I would get hungry but after 3 or 4 bites, I couldn't eat.

So, lots of small snacks on the leftovers. Followed by Haagen Dazs.

I still lost weight.

[a kennedy]

8. Damn, wish I couldn't eat, that seems to be all I do.......

[MartyTheGreek]

3. Yes, it started with Lockdown Hair...

And, I see the kids liking 60,s 70's and even 80's music all of a sudden. It was a more analog time I must say! The big hair with the bellbottom leg jeans make the look more stylish and symmetrical, I submit!

I'll be 60 in a few months... On my second date last week, she wore bellbottom jeans and one of those tight fitting 60's arm length tops! She's uptown so I gotta stay on top of my game!~ Groovy! Just Groovy Man! I'm Diggin it!

[bullimiami]

4. thats one ugly fashion that really could be left in the past.

[northoftheborder]

6. My sons' 1970 bell-bottom polyester jeans now worth something???

[Niagara]

7. I hope that the flares are coming back in fashion.

I prefer bootcut and flare styles over this awful and uncomplimentary skinny style of pants/jeans any day.

[a kennedy]

9. Flares and a small bell do look nice at times.......

[Niagara]

14. Absolutely.

I'm pretty sure that different pant/jean brands have much different variations on the width of a flare. I would wear something like this, but I wouldn't wear anything that was too much wider.

[whistler162]

10. Did they ever leave?

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Bell-bottom trousers and my leisure suit I am all set!


ps: my name is not Larry.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. God, I hope not.

[Sanity Claws]

12. I think they are now called boot leg pants -- bottoms wide enough to go over boots

Is that what you are looking at?
Or they true bell bottoms, with a much larger flare than boot legs.

[a kennedy]

13. Silly me......guess my age is showing eh??? You are correct, boot leg pants is what they're called.

Bell bottoms are from the 60’s and 70’s, I lived in them.

[whistler162]

15. This thread needs a little music

[Wicked Blue]

16. Seeing them again makes me gag

I wore them in the late 60s and early 70s but that was enough for me.

I believe they went out of style because the bottoms got tangled in bicycle gears and wheels. This was just when cycling was becoming popular.

The style originated from the U.S. Navy. The legs were easy to roll up when they were swabbing the decks.

[OriginalGeek]

17. I didn't own a pair of straight leg jeans until

a couple years after I graduated high school in 81

and I was probably the last of my friends to adopt the new flareless pants style. Even then I felt uneasy in straight legs trousers for years.

nowadays the only reason I ever wear any pants at all is because I don't wanna go to jail naked.




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