Tobi trousers

Two workers wearing tobi pants and jika-tabi boots

Tobi trousers or tobi pants are a type of baggy pants used as a common uniform of [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 , 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.^[1] This style has also entered popular fashion,^[2] as evidenced by the emergence of toramani ("Toraichi maniacs"), die-hard fans of Toraichi trousers.^[1]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Baggy trousers", Japan Times, December 20, 2005
^ Kurashima, Kyoko (18 January 2006). "Japanese Construction Worker Fashion". PingMag. Archived from the original on 3 January 2015.

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[jtimes-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Baggy trousers", Japan Times, December 20, 2005

[2] Kurashima, Kyoko (18 January 2006). "Japanese Construction Worker Fashion". PingMag. Archived from the original on 3 January 2015.

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