Part of the flamboyant, sexually open style of fashion that produced the miniskirt (see entry under 1960s—Fashion in volume 4) in the 1960s, hot pants were dressy, ultra-short women's shorts made of a variety of fabrics from velvet to leather. The design of hot pants allowed them to be worn shorter than the shortest micro-miniskirt and still provide some degree of modesty.
Hot pants had been seen before, but they had been considered naughty and.....
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