harem pants

very full (bouffant), ankle-length pants gathered into bands at the ankles and waist. also known as shalwar. and etc. (and were then part of the large Ottoman Empire, which saw its defeat in World War I), at which time the sultan Nair-Ne-Din visited Paris. after seeing the Parisian ballet, he ordered all women to wear short skirts instead of trousers. cultures, rulers and other nobles typically had more than one wife (and in case of the most important men, these numbered into the hundreds or thousands), and these women composed the harem of the ruler.