Style of Japanese trousers designed to be worn with split-toed boots
Two workers wearing tobi pants and jika-tabi boots
Tobitrousers or tobipants are a type of baggy pants used as a common uniform of tobi shokunin [ja], construction workers in Japan who work on high places (such as scaffolding and skyscrapers).[1] The pants are baggy to a point below the knees, abruptly narrowing at the calves so as to be put into the footwear: high boots or jika-tabi (tabi-style boots).[citation needed]
According to a spokesperson for Toraichi, a major manufacturer of worker's clothes of this style, the style was developed from knickerbockers which were part of Japanese military uniform during World War II. The regular knickerbocker-style pants are called "nikka zubon" ("zubon" meaning "trousers" and "nikka" or "nikka-bokka", a gairaigo transformation of the word "knickerbockers"). The excessively widened ones are called chocho zubon.[2] This style has also entered popular fashion,[3] as evidenced by the emergence of toramani ("Toraichi maniacs"), die-hard fans of Toraichi trousers.[1]
^ ab"Baggy trousers", Japan Times, December 20, 2005
^Gordenker, Alice (20 December 2005). "Baggy trousers". Japan Times. Archived from the original on 9 February 2009.
^Kurashima, Kyoko (18 January 2006). "Japanese Construction Worker Fashion". PingMag. Archived from the original on 3 January 2015.
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