Dupont he is looking at the Teddy Boys at Paul Joe

"Stove pipe" as nicknamed by Italian 1960s ragazzi or "Futsal for two blows" in the words of rockers who, in the 1950s, compared its shape to that of a rifle. "Bénard mould gambettes and family jewelry" or "fire floor calbute" as it meant in this cherished slang to Albert Simonin. In short, more flower qualifiers jostle to describe what the jargon of the pantalonniers simply calls the "cigarette" because of its very narrow cut. Totally atypical with its side provocative and ambiguous, "cigarette" does not always mix with the other parts of a traditional men's wardrobe. It is indeed true first pants in the history of the costume. During the French Revolution, the "sans-culottes", as called them the aristocrats with contempt, have this strange clothing grinding with long legs, while traditional breeches stops at the knee. Regarded as iconic piece of social and cultural revival sticky pants crosses conqueror the Executive Board, the Consulate and first Empire. The image of Napoleon and his marshals in Brocade jacket and narrow trousers in boots posing in the paintings of David and Girodet is ultimately very rock'n roll.

It is a new resonance in the 20th century in what may designate under the generic term "modes against." Flannel or velvet and in association with a long jacket with four buttons and enormous shoes with crepe soles, "cigarette" becomes the exclusive right of the Teddy Boys (considered by the media of the time as real hooligans) in London in the 1950s. On the home of Uncle Sam, and on pace of rock around the clock, it is inseparable from the range leather jacket, t-shirt and Harley Davidson of the first Hell's Angels. Attribute of elegance to the Roman in the 1960s, the "cigarette" is entitled to a praise for the less sulphur on the part of the filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini: "this narrow, climbing was every posture of pipe radiating on the fly, right tube, a tube on the left, a top tube, a tube down." And when the ragazzi rely against the wall or billiards cross-legged, it is more than a single tense, quiet and threatening swelling. "Nothing surprising therefore that this special form of trousers is later retrieved by movements also opposed to the conformist and bourgeois order than that of the punks. And today is subject to a revival in these frondeuses heads are creators. Rock spirit Dsquared and Masatomo, denim or satin crunching and black leather in Versace and Ute Ploier, he turns to punk sauce pure and hard in Junya Watanabe or weave a workwear touch in as for boys. At the time of the English in very smart United Kashmir gentleman or micro-chevrons Hackett and Paul Smith, Scottish and velvet Rykiel man and S.T. Dupont, he is looking at the Teddy Boys at Paul & Joe.

Black leather or lacquered effects

Beautifully offset by loops in for Issey Miyake by Naoki Takizawa fluorescent color vinyl, it is available in version sport city under the leadership of Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton. Treaty in seductive effects painted in Raf Simons, he plays the chic and elegance strict black velvet in Gucci. Reminiscent of the trouser motorcycle leather Black stitched at Gieves by Joe Casely-Hayford, it imitates the skin of snake in Ann Demeulemeester. Not to mention its also surprising that attractive replay for urban dandy in Prada (charcoal flannel), Ungaro and Mugler (in Black wool) or Dior man by Hedi Slimane (bright wool cloth).

Of course, as size-low, "cigarette" requires a rather elongated template to avoid distressing boudinaged aspect. You can always rely on the other returning from the season is good old trousers to clips!