The origins of the culottes date back to 1911, when Paul Poiret popularized the culottes to facilitate the life and movements of the most emancipated women of his time, who rode bicycles. In the 1930s, Elsa Schiaparelli opened her fashion house in Paris, creating innovative, practical and comfortable clothes, such as the culottes created for the Spanish tennis champion Lilí Álvarez, who wore it for the first time in 1931 at a Wimbledon tournament . That model was then developed for riding and on two wheels.
