Bell-bottoms, the Glossary
Bell-bottoms (or flares) are a style of trousers that become wider from the knees downward, forming a bell-like shape of the trouser leg.[1]
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39 relations: Bell Bottom Blues (Derek and the Dominos song), Bell sleeve, Canvas, Chelsea boot, Clog, Commodore (United States), COVID-19 pandemic, Denim, Derek and the Dominos, Go-go dancing, Happy Mondays, Hat, Knee, Low-rise (fashion), Minions: The Rise of Gru, Naval rating, Online magazine, Phat pants, Platform shoe, Punk rock, Ready Steady Go!, Ribbon, Royal Navy, Sailor, Sharon Haver, Shoe, Sonny & Cher, Square rig, Stephen Decatur, T.A.M.I. Show, The Boston Globe, The Charlatans (English band), The Guardian, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, The Stone Roses, Toni Basil, Trousers, Waistcoat, Wide-leg jeans.
- 1960s fads and trends
- 1970s fads and trends
- American fashion
- Canadian fashion
- Clubwear
- Dancewear
- Jeans by type
Bell Bottom Blues (Derek and the Dominos song)
"Bell Bottom Blues" is a song written by Eric Clapton and Bobby Whitlock,, Archive.is, retrieved 17 March 2017 and performed by Derek and the Dominos.
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Bell sleeve
A bell sleeve can be either long or short and is usually set smoothly into the armscye (no pleating or shirring) and flares toward the bottom.
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Canvas
Canvas is an extremely durable plain-woven fabric used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, shelters, as a support for oil painting and for other items for which sturdiness is required, as well as in such fashion objects as handbags, electronic device cases, and shoes.
Chelsea boot
Chelsea boots are close-fitting, ankle-high boots with elastic side panels. Bell-bottoms and Chelsea boot are 1960s fashion.
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Clog
Clogs are a type of footwear made in part or completely from wood. Bell-bottoms and Clog are 1970s fads and trends.
Commodore (United States)
Commodore was an early title and later a rank in the United States Navy, United States Coast Guard and the Confederate States Navy, and also has been a rank in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps (NOAA Corps) and its ancestor organizations.
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COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
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Denim
Denim is a sturdy cotton warp-faced textile in which the weft passes under two or more warp threads.
Derek and the Dominos
Derek and the Dominos was a short-lived English–American blues rock band formed in the spring of 1970 by singer-guitarist Eric Clapton, keyboardist-singer Bobby Whitlock, bassist Carl Radle and drummer Jim Gordon.
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Go-go dancing
Go-go dancers are dancers who are employed to entertain crowds at nightclubs or other venues where music is played. Bell-bottoms and Go-go dancing are 1960s fads and trends.
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Happy Mondays
Happy Mondays is an English rock band formed in Salford in 1980.
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Hat
A hat is a head covering which is worn for various reasons, including protection against weather conditions, ceremonial reasons such as university graduation, religious reasons, safety, or as a fashion accessory.
Knee
In humans and other primates, the knee joins the thigh with the leg and consists of two joints: one between the femur and tibia (tibiofemoral joint), and one between the femur and patella (patellofemoral joint).
Low-rise (fashion)
Low-rise is a style of clothing designed to sit low on, or below, the hips.
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Minions: The Rise of Gru
Minions: The Rise of Gru, also known as Minions 2, is a 2022 American animated comedy film produced by Illumination and distributed by Universal Pictures.
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Naval rating
In a military navy, a rate or rating, and sometimes known as a bluejacket in the United States, is a junior enlisted sailor who is below the military rank of warrant officer.
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Online magazine
An online magazine is a magazine published on the Internet, through bulletin board systems and other forms of public computer networks.
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Phat pants
Phat pants, phatties, or phats are a style of pants that are fitted at the waist, but get increasingly wide down the legs, covering the feet entirely due to their width. Bell-bottoms and phat pants are 1990s fashion, 2000s fashion, Clubwear, jeans by type and Trousers and shorts.
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Platform shoe
Platform shoes are shoes, boots, or sandals with a thick sole, usually in the range of. Bell-bottoms and Platform shoe are 1960s fashion, 1970s fads and trends, 1970s fashion, 1990s fashion and 2000s fashion.
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Punk rock
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.
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Ready Steady Go!
Ready Steady Go! (or RSG!) was a British rock/pop music television programme broadcast every Friday evening from 9 August 1963 until 23 December 1966.
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Ribbon
A ribbon or riband is a thin band of material, typically cloth but also plastic or sometimes metal, used primarily as decorative binding and tying.
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
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Sailor
A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship.
Sharon Haver
Sharon Haver is a New York City-based Syndicated Fashion Columnist, fashion stylist, and entrepreneur.
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Shoe
A shoe is an item of footwear intended to protect and comfort the human foot.
Sonny & Cher
Sonny & Cher were an American pop and entertainment duo in the 1960s and 1970s, made up of spouses Sonny Bono and Cher.
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Square rig
Square rig is a generic type of sail and rigging arrangement in which the primary driving sails are carried on horizontal spars which are perpendicular, or square, to the keel of the vessel and to the masts.
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Stephen Decatur
Commodore Stephen Decatur Jr. (January 5, 1779 – March 22, 1820) was a United States Navy officer.
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T.A.M.I. Show
T.A.M.I. Show is a 1964 concert film released by American International Pictures.
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The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The Charlatans (English band)
The Charlatans (often referred as The Charlatans UK in the United States) are an English rock band formed in Birmingham, West Midlands in 1988.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour is an American variety show that starred American pop singers Sonny Bono and Cher, who were married to each other at the time.
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The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses were an English rock band formed in Manchester, England in 1983.
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Toni Basil
Antonia Christina Basilotta (born September 22, 1943), better known by her stage name Toni Basil, is an American singer, choreographer, dancer, actress, and director.
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Trousers
Trousers (British English), slacks, or pants (American and Canadian English) are an item of clothing worn from the waist to anywhere between the knees and the ankles, covering both legs separately (rather than with cloth extending across both legs as in robes, skirts, dresses and kilts). Bell-bottoms and Trousers are History of clothing (Western fashion) and Trousers and shorts.
Waistcoat
A waistcoat (UK and Commonwealth, or; colloquially called a weskit) or vest (US and Canada) is a sleeveless upper-body garment. Bell-bottoms and waistcoat are History of clothing (Western fashion).
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Wide-leg jeans
Wide-leg jeans, colloquially called baggy pants, are a style of clothing popular from the early 1980s to the 2000s, and also during a brief revival in the 2020s. Bell-bottoms and Wide-leg jeans are 1990s fashion, 2000s fashion, American fashion, Canadian fashion, Clubwear, Dancewear and jeans by type.
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See also
1960s fads and trends
- 1960s in music
- Age of Aquarius
- Aqua Net
- Bananadine
- Beatlemania
- Bell-bottoms
- Bike boom
- Bralessness
- Dalekmania
- Elephant joke
- Flower power
- Francine Gottfried
- Freddie (dance)
- Free jazz
- Frodo Lives!
- Frug (dance)
- Geodesic dome
- Go-go dancing
- God's eye
- Greaser (subculture)
- Hippie movement
- Keep On Truckin' (comics)
- Lava lamp
- Love beads
- Make love, not war
- Marsha Albert
- Metrecal
- Miniskirt
- Mod (subculture)
- Nehru jacket
- Novelty song
- Paper clothing
- Paul is dead
- Psychedelic rock
- Sick comedy
- Summer of Love
- Surf music
- Take Ivy
- The Shake (dance)
- Tie-dye
- Troll doll
- Turn on, tune in, drop out
- Twist (dance)
- Vibrating belt machine
- Watusi (dance)
1970s fads and trends
- 1970s in furniture
- 1970s in music
- 8-track cartridge
- Afro
- Aqua Net
- Autoball
- Bell-bottoms
- Bike boom
- Blacklight poster
- Bump (dance)
- California Cooler
- Citizens band radio
- Clog
- Club drug
- Disco
- Flower power
- Funk
- Glam rock
- Go-go boot
- Harvest gold
- Heavy metal music
- Hotpants
- Lava lamp
- Leisure suit
- Macramé
- Mod (subculture)
- Mood ring
- Mujib coat
- New wave music
- Opera window
- Papasan chair
- Pet Rock
- Platform shoe
- Pogo (dance)
- Psychedelic rock
- Roller disco
- Roller skates
- Running boom of the 1970s
- Safari jacket
- Shag (fabric)
- Sideburns
- Streaking
- Tetherball
- Tie-dye
- Tube top
- Waterbed
American fashion
- Adidas Yeezy
- Aloha shirt
- Amazon Coat
- Athleisure
- Baseball cap
- Beanie (seamed cap)
- Bell-bottoms
- Bode (fashion brand)
- Bumpits
- Cardigan (sweater)
- Coonskin cap
- Coty Award
- Crop top
- FTL Moda
- Fashion in the United States
- Go-to-hell pants
- Hip hop fashion
- Indigenous fashion of the Americas
- Jeans
- Jeggings
- Kahala (apparel)
- Knit cap
- Leggings
- List of Vogue (US) cover models
- Lo Lifes
- Mullet (haircut)
- Native American fashion
- Oleg Cassini, Inc.
- Online Ceramics
- Purple Mark
- Rip the Runway
- Slim-fit pants
- Sportswear (fashion)
- Straw Hat Riot
- T-shirt
- Take Ivy
- The World of Anna Sui
- Tube top
- Vaquera (fashion brand)
- Wedding dress of Carolyn Bessette
- Western wear
- Wide-leg jeans
- Xtratuf
- Yeezy (brand)
- Yeezy Gap
- Yoga pants
Canadian fashion
- Athleisure
- Baseball cap
- Beanie (seamed cap)
- Bell-bottoms
- Buffalo coat
- Canada's Next Top Model
- Canadian fashion
- Capote (garment)
- Cardigan (sweater)
- Ceinture fléchée
- Coonskin cap
- Costume Museum of Canada
- Cowichan knitting
- Crop top
- Fur wedge cap
- Hudson's Bay point blanket
- Jeans
- Jeggings
- Knit cap
- LaSalle College Vancouver
- Leggings
- Line the Label
- Mullet (haircut)
- Peace Collective
- Phrygian cap
- Project Runway Canada
- Qiviut
- Red Serge
- Slim-fit pants
- T-shirt
- Toque
- Tube top
- Western wear
- Wide-leg jeans
- Yoga pants
Clubwear
- Athleisure
- Bell-bottoms
- Bodysuit
- Bralette
- Bustier
- Camisole
- Crop top
- Fetish clothing
- Fetish fashion
- Halterneck
- High-heeled shoe
- Hip-huggers
- Hotpants
- Jeggings
- Jumpsuit
- Leggings
- Miniskirt
- Phat pants
- Sleeveless shirt
- Slim-fit pants
- Spaghetti strap
- Sports bra
- Stiletto heel
- Tights
- Tube top
- Unitard
- Wide-leg jeans
- Yoga pants
Dancewear
- Arm warmer
- Athleisure
- Ball gown
- Ballerina skirt
- Bell-bottoms
- Bodysuit
- Camisole
- Clubwear
- Crop top
- Dance belt
- Dance costume
- Dance shoes
- Fluffy (footwear)
- Hotpants
- Jumpsuit
- Leg warmer
- Leggings
- Leotard
- List of dancewear
- Sleeveless shirt
- Sports bra
- Tights
- Tube top
- Tutu (clothing)
- Unitard
- Wide-leg jeans
- Yoga pants
Jeans by type
- Baggies (trousers)
- Bell-bottoms
- Carpenter jeans
- Denim skirt
- High-rise (fashion)
- Hip-huggers
- Jean jacket
- Jeggings
- Levanta cola jeans
- Low-crotch pants
- Mom jeans
- Phat pants
- Slim-fit pants
- Wide-leg jeans
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell-bottoms
Also known as Bell Bottoms, Bell bottom, Bell bottom trousers, Bell-bottom, Bellbottoms, Boot cut, Boot cut jeans, Boot-cut, Boot-cut jeans, Bootcut, Bootcut jeans, Bootleg trousers, Flare jeans, Flared jeans, Flared trousers, Loon Pants.