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A long time ago everyone had robe or dress like clothing, but when did men start waring pants?

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A long time ago everyone had robe or dress like clothing, but when did men start waring pants?

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  1. the ancient male caucasian mummy from the Taklamakan area in China was wearing trousers, and he is bronze age. His garments with their checked pattern was very like what the celts wore about a thousand years later


  2. In English, the word is trousers (pants are underwear).

    Depends which part of the world you mean. The Romans initially looked on "bracae" (breeches) as a barbarian fashion and avoided them completely, male Romans wearing the tunica which extended to just above the knee. Later in Imperial times, these bracae became normal wear under the tunica in colder climates (such as Britain).

    The ancient Persian men wore long trousers from the earliest times; the Egyptians did not. This is nothing to do with the adoption of horse-riding (Native Americans on the Plains took off their leggings when hunting buffalo or going into combat on horseback), it is simply a fashion difference.

    In England, the Ancient British tribes wore trousers; later (after the Roman Empire collapsed) the Saxons, Jutes, Frisians, Angles and other immigrants also wore trousers. Strangely, this fashion ended completely in 1066 with the Norman Conquest, when separate legs (hose) held up with ties to a belt became the norm. Trousers (or joined hose) only became fashionable again late in the Medieval period.

    So trousers have been in and out of fashion periodically since ancient times, without any connection at all with horse-riding.

  3. After they started riding astride horses instead of using chariot or wagons. Pants are an adaptation to equestrianism.  

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