High-waisted coral flared pants for women – Vigogna

Exploration : Trapeze

Fluid flared high-waisted pants with two large pockets that open on the sides. It is closed with a zipper and a hidden hook.

Unlike what we often hear, bell-bottom trousers do not date from yesterday or the day before, but from much further back: it seems that they were already in fashion in the nineteenth century. in the USA. Small nuance: among the men, of course, the women hardly wore any, stuck in their skirts and petticoats. Anecdote in the anecdote: in the adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mr. Mark Twain, we unmask a boy disguised as a girl because by throwing something at him while he is sitting, he closes his legs as if he had a pants while a girl would have opened them, wearing a skirt. This novel came out in 1884, it tells us that the appropriation of pants by women is not very old!

This lightweight glazed cotton is dyed here with two techinques. The first, called shibori, consists of folding the fabric according to certain rules until it is made into a small rectangle, tying it all together and dipping it in the dye. The second, called “salad”, consists of making small mountains or bundles of fabric by pulling one end up and passing the dye over the tops of the mountains.