I first saw this kind of trousers at my job, sorting costumes, and I thought it was pretty smart. They are called ‘fall front trousers,’
‘drop front trousers,’ or sometimes ‘flap pants.’ Zippers were not in use in the nineteenth century, and having a button front closure on trousers might have been seen as uncomfortable or not elegant enough, the trousers were closed with a ‘flap’ which buttons on the sides or top. Under the flap, the waistband has a front closure so you can open the flap without dropping trou (convenient, convenient.) The pockets are also located under the flap. Trousers like this were worn from the French Revolution onwards (1790s), around 1840 the centered trouser closure was introduced but for a long time the two styles existed simultaneously.
Picture credit to vintagetextiles.com
My very favourite emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was a big fan.
Now you might think, I want one of those! Luckily, Marc Jacobs thinks they’re very sexy too:
I like them, except bathroom emergencies might be a bit of a problem for the clumsy-fingered.
They’re victorians, there are no bathroom emergencies. They just dispose of everything magically! ;) But yeah you’re right, it’s a lot of buttons to unbutton.
I’ve worn them, or a replica of.
It takes a little getting used to but when you do, it’s no harder to unbutton in a hurry than a modern button fly is.
It’s a lot of buttons though (>.<) Thank you for stopping by! :)
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i think this website is ok but it should describe the victorian clothing more because this says to by victorian mens clothes
Iona, thank you for your input! I’ll write something about Victorian clothes soon! :)
fantastic invention, it should be bought back in fashion, even unto the local supermarkets with big names, not just overseas, but all over the world, i love that type of old clothing
Enlisted men in the US Navy wore just such trousers in their dress whites and dress blues at keast through the 1960s. They had 13 buttons, each stamped with an anchor on them, representative of the original 13 states.
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[…] https://19thcentury.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/victorian-mens-wear-fall-front-trousers/ Figure 01: Czechia (Czech Republic): The fall-front of these black felt breeches are edged with white embroidery in backstitch and zigzags. (Blata, Bohemia) Figure 02: Germany: The boy is wearing three-quarter-length tan suede-like leather trousers (Lederhosen). Its fall-front (Hosenlatz) is closed with two large brown buttons. The fall-front is edged with a piece of yellow-greenish silky braid. (Upper Bavarian boy) Figure 03: Germany: The boy is wearing short velvet breeches in the form of Lederhosen (Bavarian:Buam) with large imitation buckhorn (Hirschhorn) buttons closing the fall-front (Hosenlatz). The fall-front is lined with green felt. (Allgäu) Figure 04: Netherlands: This man from Volendam is wearing the typical wide woollen black trousers of this region but without the usual fall-front. He does, however, still have the typical two metal buttons used to close the fall-front on the front of the trousers. [Volendam (II)] Figure 05: Netherlands: This consists of a pair of wide trousers and a black linen jacket with a blue-and-white-striped shirt underneath it. He also has a high red collar with a spiral of gold wire set in the centre. The trousers have a fall-flap at the front. The waist of his trousers is very high and has two brass studs on it. (South Beveland man) Figure 06: Poland: These are dymki (trousers of white, shop drill) which became popular with unmarried men living in Szczyrzyc at the end of the 19th century. The fall-front consists of two slits (przypory) and a broad flap in the middle (usually fastened with buttons). As here, they were decorated with modest red-thread embroidery. (Szczyrzyc Lachy) […]