banana leg

English translation: wide-leg, baggy trousers

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English term or phrase:Charlie Chaplinesque banana-leg trousers
Selected answer:wide-leg, baggy trousers
Entered by: Joanna Borowska

00:12 Dec 8, 2006
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Textiles / Clothing / Fashion
English term or phrase: banana leg
(New collection of clothes in the style of the 1920s)

This"grampa" styling results in Charlie Chaplin silhouettes, i.e. banana leg with a cropped jacket for women and worker chinos and slim carrot fir for men.

Banana leg?
Joanna Borowska
Poland
Local time: 22:38
wide-leg trousers
Explanation:
See fashion report in link.
Charlie Chaplinesque wide-leg trousers
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jerrie
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:38
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3wide-leg trousers
jerrie
3curved
John Fenz
2Bandy leg trousers would be...
Anna Maria Augustine (X)
2baggy trousers
Luisa Moura Almeida


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24 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
Bandy leg trousers would be...


Explanation:
the closest you might get to it. Charlie Chaplin walked as though he was bandy legged.

Anna Maria Augustine (X)
France
Local time: 22:38
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baggy trousers


Explanation:
because they are oversized, but there is no connection with the banana

Luisa Moura Almeida
Local time: 22:38
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Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese, Native in DutchDutch
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wide-leg trousers


Explanation:
See fashion report in link.
Charlie Chaplinesque wide-leg trousers


    Reference: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/main.jhtml?xml=/fashion/2...
jerrie
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:38
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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curved


Explanation:
Merely for your consideration
This is by no means a standard translation, and there are very few hits in Google.

See image of "curved pants" in link below.





    Reference: http://www.emaharishi.com/index.php?cat=2&type=page
John Fenz
United States
Local time: 16:38
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
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