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Capri pants

Capri Pants ("capris") are a style of pants usually worn in warm weather. They are designed to end mid-calf

Calf muscle

The calf or gastroc-soleus is a pair of muscles—the gastrocnemius muscle and soleus muscle—at the back of the lower human leg....
or just below the calf. Though capri pants are most popular with women, they have become popular among men in many countries, especially in Europe and Latin America. They have recently begun to be worn by young and middle-aged men in urban areas of the United States.

Capri pants were first designed by European fashion designer, Sonja de Lennart

Sonja de Lennart

Sonja de Lennart is a European fashion designer. In 1948, she invented the famous Capri pants....
, in 1948 and they became popular in the United States during the 1960s, largely due to the influence of the popular television series The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show

The Dick Van Dyke Show is an United States television situation comedy which initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961 and ran until June 1, 1966....
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Capri Pants ("capris") are a style of pants usually worn in warm weather. They are designed to end mid-calf

Calf muscle

Sonja de Lennart

Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore is an United States Actor and comedian, primarily known for her roles in sitcoms and television.Moore is arguably best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show , in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a news producer at WJM-TV in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and for her earlier role as L...
, caused a fashion sensation – and some mild controversy – by wearing snug-fitting capri pants during the show's run. After a drop in popularity during the 1970s through the 1990s (though Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

Uma Karuna Thurman Hawke , better known as Uma Thurman, is an American actress. She performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedy film and dramas to science fiction film and Action movie Thriller s....
wore them in Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction (film)

Pulp Fiction is a 1994 in film United States crime film by director Quentin Tarantino, who cowrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclecticism dialogue, irony Black comedy, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic and popular culture references....
), capri pants again became a dominant trend during the 2000s.

Common shoes worn with capris are ballet flats and mary janes

Mary Jane (shoe)

Mary Jane is an American English term for a kind of strap shoe or sandal that typically has low heels, broad and rounded closed toes, and a single-buckle strap across the instep and/or around the ankle....
, as well as sneakers like Keds

Keds

Keds is a brand of canvas shoe with rubber soles, introduced in 1916 by U.S. Rubber , and now owned by the Stride Rite Corporation....
. Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal

Rafael Nadal

Rafael Nadal Parera is a Spain professional tennis player who has been ATP Entry Ranking List of ATP number 1 ranked players since August 18, 2008....
wore capri pants in the majority of his matches before 2009

Rafael Nadal

Rafael Nadal Parera is a Spain professional tennis player who has been ATP Entry Ranking List of ATP number 1 ranked players since August 18, 2008....
.

The pants' name originated from the Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
isle of Capri

Capri

Capri is an Italy island off the Sorrentine Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples. It has been a resort since the time of the Roman Republic....
, where they were first made popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Capri pants

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