Palazzo pants: Difference between revisions

[[File:Artinstitportland2009palazzo.jpg|thumb|A model wearing palazzo -leg trousers.pants]]

Palazzo pants for women first became a popular trend in the late 1960s and early 1970s.<ref>{{cite book|lastname=Algeo|first=John|title=Fifty Years among the New Words: A Dictionary of "Neologisms 1941-1991|year=1993|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-44971-7|pages=173}}<"/ref> The style was reminiscent of the wide-legged cuffed trouserspants worn by some women fond of avant-garde fashions in the 1930s and 1940s, particularly actresses such as [[Katharine Hepburn]], [[Greta Garbo]] and [[Marlene Dietrich]].<ref>{{cite book|last=LoAlbo|first=Stacy|title=Vintage Fashion Accessories|year=2009|publisher=Krause Publications|isbn=978-1-4402-0251-3|pages=13}}</ref> During the 1960s, some upscale restaurants resisted modern fashion trends by refusing to admit women wearing trouserspants, which were considered inappropriate by some proprietors.<ref>{{cite book|last=Smith|first=Nancy|title=Classic Ten|year=2003|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0-14-200356-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/classictentruest00macd/page/35 35]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/classictentruest00macd/page/35}}</ref> This posed a problem for women who did not want to wear the skirt styles that were then in fashion. Some women opted to circumvent restaurant bans on women in pants by wearing palazzo trouserspants or [[culottes]] as evening wear.<ref>{{cite book|last=Heinemann|first=Barbara Perso|title=Fashioning an artful life: One woman's life history in clothes|year=2008|publisher=ProQuest Information and Learning Company|location=Ann Arbor | pages=166|isbn=978-0-549-40505-4|formattype=UMI Number: 3295487}}</ref>

Palazzo pants flare out evenly from the waist to the ankle, and are therefore different from [[bellbottomsbell-bottoms]], which are snug until they flare out from the knee.<ref name="dervis">Dervis, [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20060409134729/http://www.madetomeasuremag.com/features/pre2003/953843329.html "Bell Bottom Blues."] Made to Measure Magazine (Mar. 23, 2000).</ref> Palazzo pants are also not to be confused with ''Gaucho trousers'', which only extend down to mid-calf length. [[Harem pants]] are yet another loose style, but they have a snug cuff around the ankles.<ref name=inthe>{{cite web|title=Clothes of the Eighties, Harem Pants|url=http://www.inthe80s.com/clothes/harempants0.shtml|publisher=inthe80s.com|accessdateaccess-date=6 December 2011}}</ref>