2006-08-25 01:55:58 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Beauty & Style ➔ Fashion & Accessories
Mid-length pants with a flared cut, usually worn by women. Popular in the 1920s and 1970s. To be distinguished from peddle-pushers, which have a tailored and tapered cut. They occasionally also refer to a certain cut of women's underwear that straddle the hips.
In the French Revolution, the lower classes were called sans-culottes because they did not wear the knee-breeches that the aristocracy and nobility wore.
2006-08-25 02:02:34 · answer #1 · answered by Katrine 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Culottes are shorts that are very wide in the legs, tapering out from the hips to the knees, so they resemble a skirt but provide the comfort of shorts. They can be above the knee or below the knee. Sometimes, there was also a panel over them, so that they really looked like a skirt. I don't know that they are popular right now, but we were allowed to wear them as part of our uniform at the all-girls high school I attended and we thought we were pretty happenin!
2006-08-25 09:06:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Culottes are a split or divided skirt. It resemble short trousers. They differ from trousers or shorts by being much fuller at the bottom (hem) than at the waist. Culottes were developed in order to provide more freedom to do activities such as gardening, cleaning, bike riding, etc. and still look like one is wearing a skirt.
2006-08-25 18:12:58 · answer #3 · answered by ♥ lani s 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Culottes are pants or shorter pants that can look like a skirt when wearing...Culottes has one meaning: Meaning #1 : a divided skirt.
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2006-08-25 09:01:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Culottes are made to look like a skirt, but are actually shorts for women.
2006-08-25 09:00:00 · answer #5 · answered by allannela 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Culottes are long legged shorts worn by women. They have wide legs and look like a skirt, so are suitable for smart casual office wear
2006-08-25 09:00:26 · answer #6 · answered by ossiepete 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
culotte=the french word for underpants
2006-08-25 09:02:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wide Capris
2006-08-25 08:57:06 · answer #8 · answered by you're awesome :] 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are flared out capris thats longer than capris. But most importantly they are a pant that no woman should EVER wear. They are so 1960 TACKY
2006-08-25 08:59:04 · answer #9 · answered by muffincakes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Short pants
2006-08-25 08:57:38 · answer #10 · answered by M S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋