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Also known as bell-bottoms, flared trousers, flared pants

thumb|upright|American singer Cher (pictured with [[Sonny Bono) wearing bell-bottomed trousers, 1968]] Bell-bottoms (or flares) are a style of trousers that become wider from the knees downward, forming a bell-like shape of the trouser leg.

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thumb|upright|American singer Cher (pictured with [[Sonny Bono) wearing bell-bottomed trousers, 1968]] Bell-bottoms (or flares) are a style of trousers that become wider from the knees downward, forming a bell-like shape of the trouser leg.

==History== ===Naval origins=== thumb|right|upright|Illustration of Royal Navy sailors in uniform 1854

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