Denis Krief,Pierre Zins and Bernard Zins who inspired this work.My deepest gratitude to Cecil Bokobsa,Barbara ]eauffroy, LSonore Lara, Delphine Pietri, Delphine Priollaud and Anne Laure Quilleriet, as well as Maria Ter Markarian and Alexandre Vassiliev for their invaluableassistance.

Duds,trouser.ducks,cords.pius fours.Fantary pants.Sports pants Cassimere pants.Sunder Pants.Baggy,skin-tight .narrow,hugging,Hussar pants,bell-bottoms,cuffed ,with foot straps.Oriental sarouels,Indians dhotis,Korean pajis,jJapanese hakamas,pants have spanned centurics and civilizations.Outfit of horsewormen and eccentrics.they have been deemed indecent by American conservatives.With them,ture revolutions in fashion have found at home.Their name remains fixed with Levie's Poiret.Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent,who mand them a classic of the woman's wardrobe.

Why pants more than the blouse or the skirt?Because its unique, manifold ,comples history is tied to struggles-struggles of love?The two legs of this daredevil have walked without rest during all of the twentieth century.In their way,they are its memory and its fabric.

Foreword

Chapter 1 In the Begimfing

    From the baggypants of the Persians to the Leggings of the Rornans

Chapter 2 Breeches, Knickers and Leggings

    The Trials and Tribulations of the Culotte

Chapter 3 From the Old Regime to the Revolution

    The Triumph of tile Sans-Culottes

Chapter 4 Horsewomem Merveilleuses and Bloomerists

    Heroes Afoot

Chapter 5 Elegants, Suffragettes and Pedalers

    Hygiene and Emancipation

Chapter 6 Idols, Parisian Sultans and Odalisques

    Orientalism and Society Life

Chapter 7 Munitionnettes, Garconnes and Montparnos

    The Avant-Garde and Liberation

Chapter 8 Beach Pajamas, Knickerbockers and Norwegian

    Pants Sports and Holidays

Chapter 9 Stars, Zazous and Enlisted Women

    The Fabric of the Incorruptible

Chapter 10 Stretch Pants, Corsair Pants and Teddy Boys

    The Beautiful Getaways

Chapter 11 Beguines, Trendies and Taboos

    The Unisex Generation

Chapter 12 Hippies, Overalls and Bellbottoms

    The Hippy Generation and Low-Waisted Pants

Chapter 13 Leggings, Punks and the Baggy Look

    The Stretch Decade

Chapter 14 Androgens, Hip-Chic, Techno

    The Reign and the Passing

Exercises in Style: Pants from Every Angle

A Thematic Journey

 Pantsmousse

Overalls, Short Culottes and Pajamas

 Pantscouture

Custom-Made-The Tailor's Tradition

 Pantsfunction

Fatigues, Carpenters and Chinos

 The bhle jean planet

From Work Clothes to Vintage

 Pantsex

Slits, Flies and “Stroke it”: Pants Hell

 Pantscene

Pantaloon, Harlequins and Drag

 Pants of the World

Sarouels, Hakamas and Faraway Dreams

 Pantsdream

The Imagination of Pants

Glossary

Chronology

Bibliography