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Chino cloth (/ ˈ tʃ iː n oʊ / CHEE-noh) is a twill fabric originally made from pure cotton. The most common items made from it, trousers , are widely called chinos . [ 1 ] Today it is also found in cotton-synthetic blends.
In North America, Australia and South Africa, [7] pants is the general category term, whereas trousers (sometimes slacks in Australia and North America) often refers more specifically to tailored garments with a waistband, belt-loops, and a fly-front. In these dialects, elastic-waist knitted garments would be called pants, but not trousers (or ...
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Paul Newman wearing casual Ivy League outfit in 1954, comprising chino pants, polo shirt, and sportcoat.. Ivy League is a style of men's dress, also known as Ivy Style, popular during the late 1950s in the Northeastern United States, and said to have originated on college campuses, particularly those of the Ivy League.
Jerusalem becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Judah and, according to the Bible, for the first few decades even of a wider united kingdom of Judah and Israel, under kings belonging to the House of David. c. 1010 BCE: biblical King David attacks and captures Jerusalem. Jerusalem becomes City of David and capital of the United Kingdom of Israel ...
A large number of Jews (such as Jeremiah) also began permanent residence in Egypt upon the destruction of Jerusalem in 587 BC, during the Third Intermediate Period. In Egypt, flax was the textile in almost exclusive use. The wool worn by Israelites was known, but considered impure as animal fibres were considered taboo.
In the 1950s, pants became very narrow, and were worn ankle-length. Pants cropped to mid-calf were houseboy pants ; shorter pants, to below the knee, were called pedal-pushers . Shorts were very short in the early 1950s, and mid-thigh length Bermuda shorts appeared around 1954 and remained fashionable through the remainder of the decade.
Timeline of the early universe – events dating from the formation of the universe; Timelines from the formation of the Earth to the rise of modern humans Timeline of natural history (13,700,000,000 BCE – 200,000 BCE)