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During the French Revolution men's costume became particularly emblematic of the movement of the people and the upheaval of the aristocratic French society. This was the short pant, hemmed near the ankles, that displaced the knee-length breeches (culottes) that marked the aristocratic classes. Working class men had worn long pants for much of their history, and the rejection of culottes became a symbol of working class, and later French, resentment of the Ancien Régime. This movement would be given the all encompassing title of Sans-Culottes.