Dressed in golden pantaloons, Simone Alaimo was quite a swaggering sultan, even if his coloratura technique wasn't nearly as polished as the teeth he flashed so menacingly at one point that a retainer fell down in dazzled dread.
Ms. Anderson had asked that the air conditioning be turned off while she was on stage (wearing an airy, veiled costume with sea-green pantaloons I wanted for myself in a larger size).
Possibly a trimmer version of the pantaloons Mrs. Bloomer, an early feminist, devised in the 1800s to liberate womankind from hoop skirts.