#Cargo Pants

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Video thumbnail — Bugle Boy Jeans commercial (1988)
Fashion 1980–2001 (1988–1990 peak)

Bugle Boy

"Excuse me, are those Bugle Boy jeans you're wearing?" A woman in a black Ferrari, a hitchhiker in the desert, and a 1988 commercial that made a Simi Valley pants company a household name. Bugle Boy rode parachute pants and then baggy cargo pants to roughly half a billion dollars in annual sales and outsold Levi's with boys and young men by 1990, then spent the decade sliding toward the discount rack and a 2001 liquidation.