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| Designer | Sonja de Lennart,[citation needed]Bunny Roger |
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| Type | pants |
Capri pants (also known asthree quarter legs, orcapris,crop pants,man-pris,clam-diggers,[1]flood pants,ankle pants,jams,highwaters, ortoreador pants[2]) are pants that are longer thanshorts, but are not as long astrousers.Capri pants can be a generic term for any cropped slim pants, and used as a specific term to refer to pants that end on the ankle bone.[3]
Capri pants were introduced by fashion designerSonja de Lennart in 1948,[4] and were popularized by her[citation needed] and English couturierBunny Roger.[5] The name of the pants is derived from the Italian isle ofCapri, where they rose to popularity in the late 1950s and early 1960s.[6] The actressAudrey Hepburn was among the first movie stars who wore capris, and the pants quickly became synonymous with her classic style. The French actressBrigitte Bardot famously wore capri pants at a time when trousers were still a new fashion for women.[7]Marilyn Monroe always traveled with capri pants.[8]
Capri pants were popularized in the United States in the 1960s television seriesThe Dick Van Dyke Show. The character Laura Petrie, the young housewife played byMary Tyler Moore, caused a fashion sensation – and some mild controversy – by wearing close-fitting capri pants throughout the show's run[9][10][11] (capris that were later referred to as 1950s hausfrau[12]).
By the mid 1960s, capri-style tight-fittingcargo pants became popular among teenage boys; a good example was the superstar teen actor of that era,Luke Halpin, who wore them in some episodes of the popularFlipper.[citation needed] After a drop in popularity during the 1970s through the 1990s, capri pants returned to favor in the mid 2000s.[13] Spanish tennis playerRafael Nadal wore capri pants in the majority of his matchesbefore 2009 following a deal with Nike to wear sponsored capris, a deal thatRoger Federer had turned down before him.[14][15]
In 2017, the superintendent of theDouglas County School District inGeorgia, United States, sent out an email qualifying capri pants as inappropriate garments for the school environment, thus raising the question of what pants length remain acceptable.[16]
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