Examples
“Granted, between bell-bottoms and cheap polyester, it had moments of caricature, but what decade is fully above reproach?”
“And more to the point, can I borrow those bell-bottoms?”
“He's the guy who will start wearing bell-bottoms when the cool kids are tight-rolling their jeans.”
The Huffington Post: Heather Taylor-Miesle: T-PAW Behind the Times
“Soon I expect other players will be following the trail blazed by Cipriani, Henson and Ben Foden – currently dating Una Healy from the Saturdays, apparently, and with a taxi-rank scuffle to his name already this year – and be opening city-centre nitespots named Rockafellas, or unisex fashion boutiques selling mauve Crimplene bell-bottoms, being photographed cuddling Old English sheepdogs and swaying about embarrassedly in the background as Pickettywitch launch a TV comeback.”
The Guardian: Danny Cipriani and playboy players are dragging rugby into the 70s | Harry Pearson
“President Richard Nixon sent his staff a 10-page re-election memo with suggestions for humanizing him, but "I don't believe he ever wore bell-bottoms," says Timothy Naftali , director of the Richard Nixon presidential library.”
The Wall Street Journal: Candidates Figure What Voters Need From Them Is a Good Dressing Down
“*** Like bell-bottoms and wide lapels, a financial-transaction tax is a fad that goes back to the 1970s.”
“The nutty wide heels flared out psychedelically, the gold-brocade bell-bottoms were a riot, and the easy tailoring on a series of tunics and jackets over dresses offered looks for day and evening.”
The Wall Street Journal: In Paris, Rochas and Van Noten and Surprise
“My father's generation had a similar bond, united through Vietnam, Woodstock, free love and bell-bottoms.”
“Listen to the tracks, and you'll swear you've grown a 'fro and are waiting for your bell-bottoms to come back from the cleaners.”
The Huffington Post: Shawn Amos: PLAY > SKIP: New Music for July 20
“But then I remembered that this was Evie—she never wore shoes, even in the rain, and she only owned overalls and bell-bottoms.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bell-bottoms’.
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Bells and Whistles
Liberty Bell, Belle and Sebastian, Whistler's Mother, whistle stop, pennywhistle, whistle pig, wolf whistle, wet your whistle, barbell, bell jar, Bell's palsy, bell pepper and 138 more...
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Below the Belt
Anything worn from the waist down.
chausses, pantaloons, britches, trossers, buckskins, chaps, galligaskins, gregs, gaskins, breeches, knee breeches, knee pants and 93 more...
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Middlesex
Gleanings from Jeffrey Eugenides' 2002 book of that title.
kukla, kundalini, pantocrator, tsoureki, cruciform, rebetika, periphescence, phylloxera, raki, scrapyard, praying mantis, pilothouse and 38 more...
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My Blue Jeans
denim, blue, jeans, vintage, rigid, used, levi's, stonewash, low-rise, hip-huggers, flare, bell-bottoms and 15 more...
Tweets
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mollusque Citation at hip-huggers. Aug 16, 2008