FLARE LINKS AND REFERENCES

Bell-bottomed jeans made by Gentlefolk

^TOP	Where to Buy Flares
	Original Welsh 70s label making perhaps the best fitting jeans around (pictured, left) This website appears to be down, but you can still get their jeans at WelshGiftShop.co.uk
	Shops in Manchester, London and Liverpool, and online sales of flared trousers and T-shirts.
	Very popular brand, selling many types of pretty big flares. See below for a link to the Miss-Sixty forum.
	UK-based company selling tall clothes for tall people with tall bodies (from 34" inside leg). Almost all their trousers are flared!
Fabs-Magic	Bespoke tailoring of jeans over the 'net. Men and Women's, up to 29" flare.
	A Belgian subsidiary of Levi's, who make townie bell-bottoms which are really bell-bottoms. Not sure where you can buy these yet...
	If you want to buy genuine US Navy Seafarer Jeans, this is the place

n.b. There are many many companies selling flares and bell-bottoms out there — we couldn't possibly list them all. The ones listed above are just a few that have caught our eye by their dedication to flares, or for their designs, etc. We don't necessarily have any experience of buying / wearing them.

^TOP	Making Your Own
Vintagebybuttons.com	original 70s patterns for flares (cover pictures only)
	Digital-era instructions for home-flaring (right)
	In Chapter 9 of his book "Escape from Pretoria", Tim Jenkin converts prison trousers into bell-bottoms whilst a prisoner in Apartheid-era South Africa.
Fabrics & More	"The store that bring old jeans new flare™"[sic.] Selling flare-kits for $7.95, complete with instructions.
	Our own guide to making your own flares from flareless trousers. Need we say more...?

Diagram from instructions for flaring trousers

[typical hippy clothes - canvas flares, batik shirt and a tent]

Some seventies hippy clothes, including white canvas flared trousers

Cartoon hippy chick, presumably from the seventies

TOP	Seventies
70s embroidered flares	These fabulous flares were hand-embroidered in 1973 or thereabouts. Which just goes to show that their cannabis probably was stronger....
The World Renown [sic.] Definitive 1970's List	begins with elephant bells and bell-bottoms. Of course
	Flares
	Bell Bottoms
	describing their view of flares
	discussing the Angel-sleaved [sic] blouse and all other aspects of 70s fashion
Fashion Flashbacks	Here is a list of other sites related to seventies fashion
	Flares bars: not a chocolate product, but a chain of 70s-themed pubs across Britain
Pigeon Street	With their massive trouser-legs and sleeves, we couldn't leave out the friendly folk of Pigeon Street (even though they're from the 80s - just) The second site will even give you your own Pigeon Street electropost address
The Pigeon Religion
	placed this advert showing flowing, 56" flares in Playgirl magazine in 1974
	Flyers in Flares: Aviators displaying their adherence to the trend

^TOP	Miscellaneous
	The BellBottom typeface (and many others) is available here for PC users — 21kB download.
	The only other dedicated flaresite on the web, to my knowledge (in German)
S c h l a g h o s e n	Friendly, German-speaking forum for discussing all aspects of flares. spin-off Miss Sixty forum!
	Faizal Efinie's website contains pictures of his flares and other interests of his
OutSpoken	Making the connection between flares, homosexuality, and the Russian Orthodox Church!
	with their absurd claims of 21" for flares and 22" for bell-bottoms
National Library of Australia	In a (serious) report, it is noted that flares can "create hilarity and scepticism"
	"Bell-bottomed Tights and Ice Diving. Or how I was Betrothed and didn't know about it until the Wedding"
	entry for Bell Bottom, TX. Honestly.
Mr and Mrs Bottom and their daughter Bell	No seriously, William and Elizabeth Bottom of Kentucky called their daughter Bell! link now dead

Victorian patern for a flared skirt with nine gores