In the 1970s, regular challenge armed forces pants, which are a kind of cargo shorts, have been exceptionally widely used with younger people who started getting them from Army surplus shops.
A equivalent style also purchased from surplus shops at the time was carpenter's pants or painter's shorts, frequently called worker's jeans.
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