Capri pants are for "manly men"

Sonja de Lennart purportedly invented capri pants in 1948. These pants are worn largely by women, but are also sported by men in many countries. While often seen viewed as “feminine,” lumberjacks sported pants that cut off between the ankles and knees much earlier than the recognized invention of Capri’s. A 1916 edition of field and stream mentions “stagged” pants as the lumberjack norm. The article defines these as “Trousers amputated somewhere between the instep and knee.” They are cut off in order to avoid dragging through brush and mud. In addition, if a branch catches up a person’s pant leg, without hemmed bottoms the pants will tear instead of dragging the lumberjack down with the branch. 


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