A skirt by any other name...

[sapphire]

Capris are also called clam diggers in some parts. generally clam diggers have a looser fitting leg than the capri style

[r.m.anderson]

Sapphire:
Thanks - had it on the tip of my tongue but could not spit/print it out.
I am sure there are other names I overlooked such as maybe crop
pants (there I go with that word again (UGH!).
rm

[sapphire]

Hi rm,
Clam diggers are a perfectly acceptable style if one is digging clams. Generally, they are styled to look like rolled up trousers. They are (IMO) practical garments and not to be worn other when engaged in collecting clams, crabs and periwinkles and the ilk. They are appropriate garb if one is on Cape Cod and "getting into eating the beach". [ been there done that, have funny stories]

Pedal pushers are functional

Capris can only be worn by movie stars and models.

That being said, I do own a set including a camp shirt with crop pants. I bought it because the fabric is beautiful.. I suppose I should convert the crop pants to a skirt. The fabric is too beautiful, light and summer perfect to loose.

[01/01/08]

And we can't forget the wide leg version, gauchos.



john

[Lucky]

And we can't forget the wide leg version, gauchos.

Are those fun? My wife's been wanting some for ages. I imagine they are very free feeling.

[mugman]

I've not heard of a lot of these names. I know of coulottes. Calflength voluminous shorts which give the impression of a skirt when at rest.

But going back to the beginning, it appears from popular comment that a skirt is a skirt is a skirt, whoever wears it.

Being almost one-track musically minded, 'Rondo' appeals to me. This is a piece of music which in basic terms starts and ends the same, and diverts into various different sections in it's journey. Sort of applies to a skirt which has a beginning and end, and might include knife or box pleats, slits, flounces, darts or whatever. In conversation it doesn't sound too bad either...'Darling, will you be wearing a kilt this evening, or a rondo?'
The sound of the word also suggests 'round' and 'encircling'.

I wonder if my long suffering bank manager will agree a substantial business loan to get rondos into the shops by Christmas?

[crfriend]

Capris can only be worn by movie stars and models.

And even then they look like utter dross. (My two cents' worth there.) Even Audrey Hepburn (supposedly the "ultimate practitioner" of the style) looked silly in them.

And we can't forget the wide leg version, gauchos.

I've actually seen those done fairly well, and done well they can look pretty good. However, the mass market hasn't done them well and it's damnably hard to get the look precisely right; but it's trivially easy to get it wrong, and that accounts for about 99+% of instances you'll see. (To wit, I have seen precisely one instance of the "gaucho" style that made my head turn -- and that was in 1981 or so; no other sightings have prompted a second look.)

Done well, culottes can be cute, too, but there's that same disconnect in there -- it's hard to get the look right and all too easy to get it wrong...

While on tr*users, the type I miss is the "palazzo" style from the early 1990s. Those could be very attractive, especially in the jumpsuit mode.

[01/01/08]

I have to agree with CRFRIEND, most often gauchos
are poorly done as a look. The only time I have seen
them look good is if the wearer also wears high-heeled
boots.


Palazzos are still available from OLD PUEBLO TRADERS
http://www.shopOPT.com