I See London, I See France, I See You're Wearing Gaucho Pants

My mom would wear the gaucho pants with suede boots.

She looked tres chic.

A seamstress would make them for her, too.

No off the rack stuff 😬

OMG hell no. Lol.

Because every woman wants to look short and fat... Gaucho Pants!

When they were trendy around 2006-2008 I got sick to death of seeing them. I'm glad that trend finally died. Again.

thanks for the link! i love looking at real pics from decades past.

OP, please explain the difference between, gauchos and culottes.

R4, link just for you!

R5 Because every woman wants to look like Foghorn Leghorn!

[quote]OP, please explain the difference between, gauchos and culottes.

Throw in skorts, ,too.

Thanks, but I'll stick with hostess pants. If they're good enough for Harper's Bazaar, they're good enough for the EtheLu Dress Shoppe.

And Capris, and jorts.

I prefer Groucho’s pants.

Capris and flats are absolutely de rigueur, r10...

Leave it to Gwen!

Culottes and Gauchos are both cropped pants that fall at or below the knee. Culottes tend to be more full, and resemble a skirt when the legs are together. Gauchos are less full, and are closer to a long short, or a short capri.

Originally skorts were shorts with a flap of fabric across the front, so they look like a skirt from the front, and shorts from the back. Those are still made, as are skorts that are essentially shorts and a skirt sewn together - think of the mesh underwear in men's bathing suits, but not mesh in a skort.

This lets women wear a skirt, while also playing tennis, or hanging upside down from a jungle gym without flashing their panties.

Why was plaid so popular in the 70s? I remember plaid everything.

I like apartment pants

I like Thanksgiving pants.

Still stickin' with my palazzos...

I remember a friend’s older sister had palazzos, and I thought they were the most glamorous thing.

Nope, R3, my mom was pretty tall and she looked fabulous in them.

When Luanne sees her old trailer for the first time since that bad fight between her parents: "So many bad memories. There's the fork Mama stabbed Daddy with. The empty bottles from that awful night. And, oh no! Those mango-colored palazzo pants that made my butt look big."

Go to 1:30 and remind yourself how wonderful Brittany Murphy was.

This doesn't need to return.

Anyone else partial to pedal pushers?

I'll stick with my clam diggers, thank you very much.

Pedal pushers, clam diggers, capri pants what’s the frigging difference??

R26. It's all about the length. Capris are ankle length. Pedal pushers are calf length. Clam diggers are knee length.

Very popular in Argentina....lol

Well, isn’t that where they originally came from, R28??

🙄🙄

[quote]I remember a friend’s older sister had palazzos, and I thought they were the most glamorous thing.

Did she let you try them on, or did you have to sneak around and do it while she was out?

This lot is about sell on eBay...

As a young mother my sister wore only gaucho pants and a breast feeding cape.

The lot sold for $230.00

I love gauchos. Just bought some in plaid while traveling in Italy. The key is that they must be fitted in the waist and hips, and you have to wear them with some sort of heel. They're fun and flattering.

You're right, r34, gauchos and ladies' Keds just don't cut it.

Groucho pants!

These were never flattering.

I see London

I see France

I see you in

Gaucho pants

Culottes are skorts. In the 70s they weren't called skorts though.

Grandpa started the trend.

They were actually a 90s thing you wouldn’t get…. They came from grunge.

Gaucho? More like fraucho.

It always struck me that culottes are such a better alternative to a skirt for women as they are so much easier to wear.

Dividing the skirt seems like such a no brainer. I don't know why women haven't demanded divided skirt alternatives.

R31 GAUCHO PIZAZZ includes gauchos, turban, boots, fake-fur coat, blouse

I want a gaucho who's not wearing pants.

r9 I'd kill to find a pair of guy's shorts in that material. 🤣

You can knit yourself a pair.

r43 Nah, culottes look dorky. If she's gonna wear shorts wear tight shorts. If she's gonna wear a dress wear a real dress.

I'll stay with my very oversized sweat pants that i never seem to sweat in them

Since the last couple of years fashion has been dominated by flood-length "ankle pants" that look like crap on everyone...

Anything for a change at this point.

[quote]R32 As a young mother my sister wore only gaucho pants and a breast feeding cape.

A time honored ensemble at MichFest.

At MichFest a breast-CASTING cape would be more appropriate.

I like the look with tall boots. The plaids are hard to look at.

I swear that once when I was watching EYES OF LAURA MARS (maybe the 80th time) it struck me that the “skirt” Dunaway is wearing in this scene is actually some kind of gaucho thing, with the addition of slits.

I caught it when Our Faye was getting up from or going into her photo shoot crouch. Or maybe I didn’t.

Muriel, please rewatch and confirm this.

Gaucho Reveal @ 01:20

This is my current favorite thread title after “Lil Goop throws a rager.”

Banana Republic TRIED selling "Athetic Shorts" that are tight at the waist and flair out in the leg. kind of "Varsity Drag" from the '20, but updated last season. Like Gaucho's for men. The Rockefeller Center Store has had them on their sales rack for over 6 months. They have since been discontinued and priced at $11 (down from $90!).