Jun 15, 2009
Give your pants another name and they’re as good as new.
Thirty-something woman, last Saturday: Where do you have capris?
Seventy-something woman, 10 minutes later: Where do you have pedal pushers?
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There is nothing new under the sun…
bell bottoms = flares
cigarette pants = skinny jeans
goucho = palazzo
etc. etc. etc.
Dawn,
word.
It was a funny moment when it happened. I expected a shuffling old guy next, to ask for clam-diggers, and then maybe a shirtless guy my age wanting jams, followed by Rafael Nadal…
Thanks for the link, A!
It’s a marketing strategy. Give an old thing a new name, and it becomes new again.
Pushing pedals since 1939.
Great post! The first year ‘capri’ pants became popular all I could think of was, ‘what’s the big deal,they are just pedal pushers’…..and I hated pedal pushers when I was young.
My mother-in-law just today referred to them as knickers. Gave me a chuckle.