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For her first performance at the Grammys since 2022, Gaga sported a '60s-era knitted beanie and a long, lacey dress, while Mars looked equally fitting in a straw fedora and bell-bottomed suit.

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2025

But a consensus has emerged that it started with a group of bell-bottomed buddies from San Rafael High School in California, who called themselves “the Waldos.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2023

They grooved to the music in bell-bottomed trousers, wide-lapeled shirts and platform shoes, said Harry Manaka, author of “Chronicles of a Sansei Rocker” and a former owner of the bar.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2022

Unfinished paintings of a bell-bottomed John Travolta and nunchuck-spinning Bruce Lee adorned the walls of his crammed Accra studio.

From Reuters • Feb. 23, 2022

Sophie Mol, hatted bell-bottomed and Loved from the Beginning, walked out of the Play to see what Rahel was doing behind the well.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy