... war and injustice. And the worst injustice was that kids in middle America weren't getting the radical bellbottom jeans in their shops. Considered a rebellious garment associated with anti-war sympathizers, bellbottoms were shut out of many stores in their early years. Desperate for the style, teens took to creating their own bellbottom jeans. By slicing open the outer side seam to about knee height, you could insert a triangular addition, a gusset, into the side seam and create your own belled denim jean. This alteration created another craze, and bellbottoms ballooned out with fabric gussets of velvet or Indian batik, or even more denim. These outrageous widths were known as elephant bells. The 'bell' evolved into the late 70's flares, and experienced a revival in the 90's both as a retro fashion and as a modern update with the big bells of the rave culture. And if nothing else, you ...

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