Well, let me tell you one thing about these pants, they are very hardy, robust, but ugly as ever. The bell bottom design does have a very good practical application, allows a person to remove their pants with out taking off your shoes while in the water. But, why are they called what they are called?

In the early days of the British East India Trade company, merchants began to import a rough, durable cloth made of cotton and impregnated with tar, pitch, or gum. The Hindu name for this was dungri. The cloth was chiefly used for tents and sails. Early sailors, who quickly appreciated its toughness, began fashioning working clothes from them, especially pants. It soon spread throughout the seas and became known as "dungarees". A very close parallel occurred in America during the gold-rush days, when a tailor named Levi Strauss did the same thing with canvas, which was used for tents at the mining camps.