5. Capri Pants and Shorts: The Plague on Our Nation

5. Capri Pants and Shorts:

The Plague on Our Nation

1. Alison Lurie, The Language of Clothes (New York: Henry Holt, 2000), 45.

2. Ibid., 46.

3. Joseph H. Hancock II and Edward Augustyn, “Pants, Trousers,” In Berg Encyclopedia, vol. 10, Global Perspectives.

4. Richard Martin and Harold Koda, Jocks and Nerds: Men’s Style in the Twentieth Century (New York: Rizzoli, 1989), 113.

5. Ibid., 121.