Palazzo pants?

That I was even reading this shows you the airless depths to which one can quickly descend when loitering around on the internet ("they have the internet on computers now?") but when I saw this matter of the "palazzo pants" and the un-ironic suggestion that these were some kind of fashion "do" for the style-conscious college co-ed, paired with pumps, no less, I had to speak out.

Culottes, as everyone knows, are what those certain girls wear in gym class, the ones who are in that religion where they aren't allowed to cut their hair, wear pants, or acknowledge government holidays. This is the ONLY reasonable application of culottes: as a workaround for prudish religious observations. This will always be true. Unflatteringly tight pants, currently in fashion again with the ladies although they make 98% of women look like old Ikea couch cushions, may go in and out of fashion a squillion google times, but culottes will never, ever be "in," paired with any shoe, at any time, in any context, other than in gym class, if you are the member of a weird religion that needs to evolve.

Have I made myself clear?

update: So it's true. I saw a girl, one of those loud-talking stocky softball team types with a lank blond ponytail and flip-flops, wearing culottes in the Sacramento Metro airport.