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who work on high places (such as

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'', December 20, 2005 The pants are baggy to a point below the knees, abruptly narrowing at the calves so as to be put into the footwear: high boots or (-style boots). According to a spokesperson for , a major manufacturer of worker's clothes of this style, the style was developed from knickerbockers which were part of Japanese military uniform during

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. The regular knickerbocker-style pants are called ( meaning "trousers" and or , a transformation of the word "knickerbockers"). The excessively widened ones are called . This style has also entered popular fashion, as evidenced by the emergence of (" maniacs"), die-hard fans of trousers.

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Trousers and shorts Japanese lower-body garments {{fashion-stub