[Utilizer]

I spent a lot of time in the Far East and the Pacific Islands. The attire I wore most was generally a thin shirt or tee-shirt of some kind since air-conditioning was only for the very rich who could afford personal generators for when the daily power brownouts and blackouts would kick in, and cutoff old jeans that had gotten too holey for normal wear, and were no more than a couple of inches below pocket level so the inner pocket pouches were in no danger of accidental damage.

Knee-length half-trousers were a waste of material and only the old fogeys that still wore mostly full-body "swimsuits" wore them. Think of all the original Bond movies and most especially the ones that came out in the seventies and that is the much-less heat-trapping styles that worked the best in such hot and humid environments.

[Utilizer]

Oh, and forgot to mention: the term coined for that style back then was “Baggies”. Or “Baggys”, depending on personal preference. I have seen it spelled both ways in newspapers, back when newspapers still had some respect and editors that actually did more than select articles -and proofreaders to correct blatant errors.