Flare or bell bottom jeans

[sissy kathy]

The pants can then be tied in knots & filled with air, to act as temporary flotation devices.

Great, it lets you freeze to death instead of drowning.

 

[GKon]

The pants can then be tied in knots & filled with air, to act as temporary flotation devices.

I remember learning that in Cub Scouts but I always wondered why the have pants were flared.

 

[Killed_by_Death]

Great, it lets you freeze to death instead of drowning.

Yeah, if you're on the North Atlantic, you might freeze fast, but if you're in the South Pacific, it's just like going for a leisurely swim.

The Red Sea is warm too, but infested with sharks.

 

[GKon]

The Red Sea is warm too, but infested with sharks.

Is that why it's red?? (bad joke)

 

[Killed_by_Death]

It's actually quite blue. I could see the ocean floor when we were at anchor in Egypt.

 

[knumbskull]

The pants can then be tied in knots & filled with air, to act as temporary flotation devices.

I remember actually being told that was a thing.

if you've got time to take your pants off and tie them in a knot, that's not a survival situation, that's a party.

 

[BBox Bass]

Flared pants look awful on me. I was not happy when they came back in the mid-2000s and elated when pants with tapered legs returned a few years later.

 

[SwitchGear]

I saw an article in motortrend mag the other day with hipsters sitting around in tight skinny pants, posing in a 70's theme room/garage. Nobody wore pants like this back in the seventies. It was all bells then flares from 1968-1980. It became "hip to be square" again when Reagan took office in 1980.

 

[One Drop]

I saw an article in motortrend mag the other day with hipsters sitting around in tight skinny pants, posing in a 70's theme room/garage. Nobody wore pants like this back in the seventies. It was all bells then flares from 1968-1980. It became "hip to be square" again when Reagan took office in 1980.

Except for punks and New Wavers who wore them from around 77or so (like myself, I remember having to take jeans to a tailor to make them narrower. Flares went out around mid 70s IIRC.

 

[SwitchGear]

I remember bells being popular up until about 76, then things narrowed down to flares till around 80. That was my experience around my neck of the woods, anyway. I never cared a bit for the punk scene, was into southern rock even in through the nasty 80's. Lol

 

[SwitchGear]

Skynyrd band pic circa 1977. Look at the size of those bell bottoms.

 

[SwitchGear]

Allman Bros Band vintage 1979. Thems flares there bro.

 

[SwitchGear]

Old Swan Band 1980
Things are tight