Motion, who is wearing a baggy red hooded sweatshirt and balloon pants, is from New Jersey.

Women in canary yellow chitons and men in pseudo-Tyrolean outfits that were jade and leather and fit very tightly, save for the balloon pants.

He wore a scarf and a pair of blue balloon pants, not too far out of style, but they didn't match.

They mostly dress in pumpkin-colored balloon pants and wear sandals even in the coldest weather.

Girls dressed in dark salwar-kameez, long shirts and balloon pants, with white scarves over their hair or carelessly draped on their shoulders, hurried from one barren classroom to another.

Loon pants (shortened from "balloon pants") were a variant on bell-bottomed trousers, with an increased flare.

I got into the balloon pants and shirt and vest.

"Everything - the balloon pants, the halter tops, the cutoff jeans, the zippers, even the Gothic-style writing - looked like the things I wanted to wear," Ms. Stefani recalled.

To others he is a peculiar fellow, notable for his flamboyant attire - balloon pants, bangles on his wrists and ankles, rings on his fingers and earrings.

The balloon pants were hell to walk in; he had forgotten that.