Sharovary

The trousers are fitted at the waist and ankles, and loose at the hips and legs.

Similar pants in other cultures are sirwal, salwar, shalwar kameez, etc., and these are often translated as sharovary or shalvary in Russian and Ukrainian.

The presence of sharovary in the dress of the Ukrainian Cossacks of Zaporizhia is noted by German ambassador Erich Lassota in the 16th century.

Its translation mentions "sharovary", but narrow linen pants (d'un caleçó) were specified in the original instead.

At the same time the word "sharovary" gave rise to the derogatory term "sharovarshchyna" for the pseudo-folk, kitsch steoretyping of the Ukrainian culture.