ProbableNamed from the place
capri pants
noun · first attested 1948
Named for an Italian holiday island by a designer who was not Italian.
Close fitting women's trousers cut to end partway down the calf.
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- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- ProbableThe conventional story is likely, with caveats.
- Attested
- 1948
- Part of speech
- noun
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Capri
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capri pants
The German designer Sonja de Lennart is generally credited with the cut in 1948 and named it for the island she loved; Hollywood and Audrey Hepburn carried it worldwide in the following decade. The attribution rests largely on the designer's own account, so the story is likelier than it is documented.
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