Talk:Parachute pants

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Why does this article need to be cleaned up? I'm not a native speaker of English. However, I find this to be a perfectly understandable, informative, and succinct entry. Maybe the person who found this article unsuitable might explain their opinion on the discussion page? 87.123.189.200 23:52, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Yeah seems fine to me, so I shall remove it. --Clapaucius 05:28, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

This is not even close.

The person that wrote this article must have been born yesterday. Parachute pants were an early to mid 80's fashion. Showed up mainstream sometime around 1982-1984 and died within a couple years. The pants McHammer wore were a totally different fad all on their own showed up around 1990-1992. The big super baggy pants worn by McHammer is some what of a religious dress worn in arab countries. They are known by many American soldiers as seven day shitters because the men wear the same pair for seven days crapping their pants because they believe some god/prophet or something is gonna be reborn and pop out they're bum. Anyway pretty nasty. But the two styles are totally unrelated. Kornholio 21:08, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Hey Kornholio, please add to it and make this article as great as parachute pants once were! AnAn 00:43, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. Breakers started wearing them around 82-83. To associate parachute pants with MC Hamper is an insult to old school heads everywhere.

MC Hammer pants are DEFINITELY not the same as parachute pants....someone very young must have put this information together

I made a fairly heavy-duty edit to this article. I feel I didn't get it 100% right, but I still think it's a lot more accurate than what was there before. My grammar and spelling could use improvement, maybe...;) Anyway, the edit was based on experience: I had both a cheap pair of nylon pants that survived some nasty roller skating incidents, and expensive pants branded as parachute pants that got a friction hole burned in the knee the first time I tried to spin around on a basketball court (I was somewhere between 9 and 12 for either, I think. But that was a long, long time ago. In a galaxy far, far away). Also, "Hammer" has now been quarantined within the main article, because some folks do get confused after all. I've been following this article longer than is strictly healthy, and was willing to make concessions to the Hammer thing (as it seemed that there was a popular (mis)conception that "Hammer Pants" = "Parachute Pants,") but this Talk Page has forced me to admit that only anachronistic viewpoints would categorize Hammer Pants as Parachute pants. I was also on the rave scene when my compatriots refused to acknowledge that their new fashion was a revamp of an 80s cliche, though today their bright orange Ravers have long since been donated to Goodwill (I think it's important and verifiable, back me up if you want, or edit it out if you've got better info). Durty Willy 05:33, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

It can't be used as a source, but I will definitely testify personally to the popularity of parachute pants in the early 1980s. In my social milieu, first women started wearing them, then men. I didn't know of the breakdancer association until now ... I always thought the name had something to do with their perceived similarity to parachutists' jumpsuits.

I would definitely distinguish them from Hammer pants as the vintage parachute pants are tight and very formfitting, whereas the latter model is loose and billowy.

Also, I recall that, while the pictured pair shows the zippers on contrasting color, plenty were made in entirely one color where the zippers weren't as obvious until you got close. Daniel Case 17:41, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

rip stop

Weren't the pants made from rip stop material that has a pattern of thicker threads about every centimeter? --Gbleem 23:49, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

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The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Parachute pants/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

I am not particularly familiar with the history of this style of clothing, but it is obvious that hammer pants are echoing Sherwal pants, which is not exactly 'religious', as one of the users stated on the talk page, but is a traditional, practical form of men's clothing in some arab cultures. Someone who is more familiar with this history should work this in. Bayboy1 (talk) 14:14, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

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