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Ravers wearing modern phat pants. The reflective properties of the material are clearly displayed.

Phat pants or phatties are usually made of denim but can be made of any material, and are fitted at the waist, but get wider down the legs all the way to the ground where they enclose the feet due to their width. Phat pants are usually worn by ravers and can be used as a visual identifier. Ravers will often customise their phat pants by covering them with reflective materials of their own design. The pants are worn at rave parties, where the glow of the reflectors illuminates people's legs while they dance. It is usually worn by people who listen to hardcore, hardstyle, and other hard genres of electronic music.

History[link]

Phat Pants were first produced in Vancouver in 1995 by Laramie^{[disambiguation needed ]}. The head designer was Noel Steen.^[1]

UV reactive tape[link]

UV reactive tape is usually sewn or glued onto phat pants. When light (usually UV rays from the sun or black light) hits the tape, the tape absorbs the UV energy and emits visible light, causing the tape to "glow". Many ravers and shufflers who wear phat pants purchase small portable UV lights as they can point it at the phat pants giving them an intense "glow" as seen in some videos on YouTube.

Not to be confused with[link]

Baggy jeans

Sometimes confused with phat pants because of their name, "baggies" are a specific type of cut with wide legs, the same width all the way down the leg. They are closely related to loose fit and are sometimes incorrectly labelled as such.^{[citation needed]}

Bell-bottoms

Another cut of jeans involving wider legs, distinguished by having a normal fit from the hips to the knees and then widening out from the knees down to the feet.^{[citation needed]}

Harem pants

Sometimes confused with phat pants, but are actually very different cut. Whilst phat pants usually have a fairly high groin and taper out from the waist, harem pants have a very low sitting groin and very wide hips, whilst tapering in towards the ankles.^{[citation needed]}

NYC Tripps

Often confused with phat pants because of their wide appearance and chains, but are a very different cut and have an overall different look. Phat pants fit to the waist, consist of only fabric and reflective tape, have only front and back pockets, and taper outwards and the cuffs are typically 100cm wide. Tripps will often have more pockets, chains, a lot of metal, typically are a straight cut down to the feet, and have a considerably smaller cuff than phats. The reflective suspenders will often be misinterpreted as fabric "chains" that tripp pants bear.^{[citation needed]}

See also[link]

• Parachute pants
• Melbourne Shuffle

References[link]

External links[link]

• Breen-Burns, Janice (2005-08-27). "Rave reviews". The Age. http://www.theage.com.au/news/fashion/rave-reviews/2005/08/26/1124563029403.html. 
• Klein, Sarah (2000-12-19). "Killer outfits". Metro Times. http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=1059.