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19 fashion terms (clothing, hair styles, fabrics, etc.)
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galligaskins
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synonyms: slops, pumpkin pants, Hammer pants (canʼt touch this) ???
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Definition:a style of trunk hose that are puffed out, as Sir Walter Raleigh's son is wearing in the painting below. Later the name was applied to loose breeches. MC Hammer tried to bring the style back in the early 1990's.
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He had somehow picked up a troop of droll children, little hatless boys with their galligaskins much worn and scant shirting to hang out, little girls who tossed their hair out of their eyes to look at him, and guardian brothers at the mature age of seven.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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