Tracing the surprising history of pants from @frontoffice.co

Name: Tracing the surprising history of pants from @frontoffice.co
Uploaded: 2024-07-26T00:44:12.000Z
Duration: 110 s
Channel: frontoffice.co
Description: The speaker explains the surprising history of Japanese Tobi construction pants. He traces their lineage from the 'Knickerbockers' worn by Dutch settlers in New York, through their adoption as sportswear and military uniforms, to their eventual evolution into a quintessential piece of Japanese workwear with unique functional purposes.

The speaker explains the surprising history of Japanese Tobi construction pants. He traces their lineage from the 'Knickerbockers' worn by Dutch settlers in New York, through their adoption as sportswear and military uniforms, to their eventual evolution into a quintessential piece of Japanese workwear with unique functional purposes.

Creator: @frontoffice.co on TikTok

Transcript

These are Japanese construction pants, tobi pants. They're pretty funky looking. Why did the thigh really bunched up below the knee? We see those pants and we recognize them as a very Japanese shape. We think no. We think ninja. How Japanese are they? If you look at the DNA of those pants, they're as much Dutch American as they are Japanese. So in the sixteen hundreds to the eighteen hundreds, we have Dutch settlers coming to New York. These early settlers of New York are called Knickerbockers.

Topics: Apparel / Fashion, History, Design

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