How to Use bell-bottoms in a Sentence

bell-bottoms

plural noun
  • The flair also began to expand, and by the ’70s, the bell-bottom took center stage.
    Ashley W. Simpson, Robb Report, 8 Feb. 2024
  • It could be found in the surge of Fleetwood Mac on the radio or rise of searches for vintage bell-bottom jeans.
    Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Wilson in her signature bell-bottoms at a 2023 event in New York.
    Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The textured black crop top is sure to be a hit, and the low-rise bell-bottom plaid pants are about as obvious a ’90s nod as grunge fashion can get.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 13 July 2023
  • Amid a sea of bell-bottoms and beards, Ishizu’s crew had to search diligently for the students still wearing Bermuda shorts and loafers.
    Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Posed on a fishing boat for the cover, Mr. Buffett wore bell-bottom denims and a broad-brimmed Stetson.
    Guy Trebay, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Where Lainey Wilson leads, her bell-bottoms will follow.
    Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2024
  • When done right, bell-bottoms give any look an instantly cool, groovy feel—whether paired with a blazer or a turtleneck.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The most covetable jeans are taking on a chill summer-of-love vibe, with wide-leg flared or bell-bottom cuts being the silhouettes to wear right now.
    Ingrid Schmidt, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2023
  • Travis wore bell-bottom jeans in a feminine cut and a white tank top to his audition, pulling his wavy blonde hair behind his ears.
    Nico Lang, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2024
  • Grab your bell-bottoms and shop the disco curl essentials below.
    Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Robbie was pink perfection in her lace-up bell-bottoms and matching vest.
    Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Urban opted for an all-black three-piece suit, which included a plunging vest and bell-bottom pants.
    Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 May 2023
  • Reed was dressed head to toe in denim, with pearl-snap buttons on his shirt, frayed bell-bottoms, and a tumescent air of rock star entitlement.
    Will Hermes, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Oddly, the trend that seemed to have overtaken men’s fashion — the wide-legged trouser flirting with bell-bottom status — was almost nowhere to be found.
    Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2023
  • Finally, Kandel, wearing turquoise bell-bottoms and a purple blouse, read her work to a packed room of three thousand people.
    Joy Lanzendorfer, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Harry Styles, the band Maneskin, and even legendary producer Nile Rodgers were harkening back to the bell-bottom look popularized in the 1970s.
    Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2023
  • On March 1, the 31-year-old pop star shared another one of her casually sultry mirror selfies, this time dressed in a simple white tank top and bell-bottom jeans.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Lively wore a skin-tight jumpsuit from the brand’s fall 2023 collection, which was made from jersey stitched with micro golden sequins and pooled into rippling bell-bottom flares.
    Emma Spedding, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Lainey Wilson represented for country in a custom Balmain black bell-bottom look.
    Leanne Italie, Twin Cities, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Starting with its bell-bottom hip-hugger cut, Parsons’ had the most WTF-for-its-time design: a nude woman, marijuana leaves and poppies on the front, poppies on the back, and pills and cubes (the latter likely symbolizing acid) on the sleeves.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2023
  • Some adolescents who first picked up a pair of bell-bottoms later wore them to protests and became ardent believers in the social causes associated with them—from civil rights to the anti-war movement.
    Mattie Kahn, ELLE, 13 June 2023
  • Our cover star, country singer and Yellowstone actress, Lainey Wilson, certainly knows a thing or two about establishing a signature look: She's almost never seen out without her wide-brim hat and bell-bottoms.
    Andrea Lavinthal, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023

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