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Sans Culottes literally means: without pants. Men who were dressed poorly and shabby (almost like a homeless person) were called sans culottes. During the French revolution this clothing style became popular and soon almost all men supporting the revolution wore shabby clothing a la sans culottes.
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They were called the "sans-culottes", because they did not wear "culottes" which were the type of undergarments that aristocratic Frenchmen usually wore. Instead, they typically wore trousers.
The Sans Culottes
During the revolution they were called commoners. Among them, there were also some sans-culottes (beggars and homeless people).