Baggy trousers
Baggy trousers
Loose baggy trousers are strictly connected with music and street culture. It is said that they originate from prison uniforms. Convicts were not allowed to use belts, therefore their trousers were very loose. Though, NBA claims that their players, especially Michael Jordan, initiated the fashion for baggy jeans. Even if they did not, then they surely contributed to its popularization. Another theory says that this type of trousers come from the hip-hop environment, and that it is proven by its history. Hip-hop is a kind of music treating about lives of young people living on the street and its rhythm. Their characteristic feature was that they came from Afro-American communities, and that their mixing influenced the generation which eventually ended up on the streets of American cities. It is in their history where we should search for baggy trousers' origins, from the times that hip-hop was dominating.
In the beginning, baggy jeans gained fame. Rap and hip-hop fans picked this trend up and they started buying trousers which were double-size and deliberately lowered them. It is thanks to the people of the streets that the trend for baggy trousers evolved into a subculture trend. The fashion industry has quickly adopted this idea and baggy trousers, with their characteristic narrowing down loose cut, can be now found in all posibile versions. Men's baggy trousers are finished with welts on the trouser legs. Their biggest advantage is exceptional comfort. They do not hamper moves in any position, especially by the shoes which are the best match in this stylization.
Baggy trousers are a perfect proposition for streetwear fans which tend to dress up spontaneously to express themselves. You can wear them for a meeting with friends in town, as well as a part of outfit in which you go to the gym. They correspond with T-shirts, longsleeves, hoodies and jumpers. In order to complete a stylization with baggy trousers in the main role, you can put on a streetstyle jacket or a quilted vest.
