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Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« on: January 11, 2018, 06:38:46 pm »

Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
BY Jake Rossen
January 10, 2018
 

It’s a question that has plagued Donald Duck for decades: Who decided pants were necessary? Did the motivation stem purely from modesty, or was there another reason we started climbing into trousers?

Over at Discover, author Sarah Scoles has offered a plausible explanation by describing a 2014 archaeological find in China’s Tarim Basin. Researchers with the German Archaeological Institute excavated what is believed to be the oldest example of pants ever unearthed, made from wool and dating back 3000 years.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/524605/why-did-we-start-wearing-pants
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Re: Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2018, 06:47:32 pm »
Because some people don't have the legs for skirts.*

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Re: Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2018, 06:49:40 pm »
I was afraid to click on this thread...Whew!
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Re: Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2018, 06:54:19 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on January 11, 2018, 06:49:40 pm
I was afraid to click on this thread...Whew!

You want me to fix that? I have answers to the question about what's under a Scotsman's kilt.
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Re: Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2018, 07:01:41 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on January 11, 2018, 06:54:19 pm
You want me to fix that? I have answers to the question about what's under a Scotsman's kilt.

No Human Tripod Jokes Frank.  It offends the gentler sexes sensibilities
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Re: Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2018, 07:11:32 pm »
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Re: Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2018, 07:14:08 pm »
Tuesday, March 18th, 965 a.d.
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Re: Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2018, 07:22:47 pm »
@To-Whose-Benefit?  - Did Vikings always wear pants, or did they ever wear robes of some sort?

It seems that in colder climes with horses and riding being involved, pants are a necessity.

I'll bet Viking women wore them too.

That silly side-saddle stuff because women needed to wear dresses is one of the most ridiculous ways to keep women in "their place."
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Re: Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2018, 07:29:34 pm »
Quote from: musiclady on January 11, 2018, 07:22:47 pm
@To-Whose-Benefit?  - Did Vikings always wear pants, or did they ever wear robes of some sort?

It seems that in colder climes with horses and riding being involved, pants are a necessity.

I'll bet Viking women wore them too.

That silly side-saddle stuff because women needed to wear dresses is one of the most ridiculous ways to keep women in "their place."

Yeah. Men love butch women. Just look at Bill Clintoon.
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Re: Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2018, 07:38:54 pm »
Quote from: GrouchoTex on January 11, 2018, 07:14:08 pm
Tuesday, March 18th, 965 a.d.

7am or was it 8? 


Now that that is settled...... when did the 1st pants come with a fly?
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Re: Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2018, 07:43:46 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on January 11, 2018, 07:38:54 pm
7am or was it 8? 


Now that that is settled...... when did the 1st pants come with a fly?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codpiece

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Re: Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« Reply #11 on: January 11, 2018, 07:45:00 pm »
Quote from: GrouchoTex on January 11, 2018, 07:14:08 pm
Tuesday, March 18th, 965 a.d.

March 18th, 965 was a Saturday.
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Re: Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« Reply #12 on: January 11, 2018, 08:03:57 pm »
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Re: Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« Reply #13 on: January 11, 2018, 08:39:43 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on January 11, 2018, 07:29:34 pm
Yeah. Men love butch women. Just look at Bill Clintoon.

Sometimes your attempts to be clever just fail, Frank.

Try riding a horse with both legs on the same side of the horse and a very long skirt on, and see how you it makes you feel.....

It's not "butch" to ride the right way.   It's just not stupid.
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Re: Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« Reply #14 on: January 11, 2018, 08:49:12 pm »
Because a skirt is a very inconvenient, immodest and cold piece of clothing. 
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Re: Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« Reply #15 on: January 11, 2018, 09:09:31 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on January 11, 2018, 08:03:57 pm
You know.  It's not often.  But, I'm sorry I asked.

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Re: Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« Reply #16 on: January 11, 2018, 09:10:16 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on January 11, 2018, 06:54:19 pm
You want me to fix that? I have answers to the question about what's under a Scotsman's kilt.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMKOvdnBvTE
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Re: Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« Reply #17 on: January 11, 2018, 09:11:34 pm »
Quote from: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on January 11, 2018, 07:45:00 pm
March 18th, 965 was a Saturday.

There's one in every crowd...... :rolling:
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Re: Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« Reply #18 on: January 11, 2018, 09:13:50 pm »
Quote from: ConstitutionRose on January 11, 2018, 08:49:12 pm
Because a skirt is a very inconvenient, immodest and cold piece of clothing.

Exactly, @ConstitutionRose

As an athletic female, I always preferred pants to skirts.   Back in the late 60's and early 70's when Christian colleges made women wear dresses, the skirts kept getting shorter and shorter until finally administrations must have realized that allowing women students to wear pants allowed them to be far more modest, and they removed the silly dress code.

Sometimes rule makers get hoisted by their own petards and have to change the arbitrary rules in order to keep the actual goal in mind.
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Re: Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« Reply #19 on: January 11, 2018, 09:16:36 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on January 11, 2018, 07:38:54 pm
7am or was it 8? 


Now that that is settled...... when did the 1st pants come with a fly?

After the farmer in the fields didn't wash them for a while, he had plenty of flies.

Seriously, I figure maybe Levi's button fly?
I don't know.
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Re: Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« Reply #20 on: January 11, 2018, 09:19:57 pm »
Quote from: ConstitutionRose on January 11, 2018, 08:49:12 pm
Because a skirt is a very inconvenient, immodest and cold piece of clothing.

Pants are to skirts and kilts the way the fork is to chopsticks; yes, we used to do it this way, but then we thought of something better.
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Re: Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« Reply #21 on: January 11, 2018, 09:22:31 pm »
Because we needed something to soil when were were frightened.
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Re: Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« Reply #22 on: January 11, 2018, 09:27:30 pm »
Quote from: BassWrangler on January 11, 2018, 09:19:57 pm
Pants are to skirts and kilts the way the fork is to chopsticks; yes, we used to do it this way, but then we thought of something better.

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A fork is not better then a chopstick.   Different tool, different use

When used in the right way with the right foods the chopstick is far superior than a fork.
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Re: Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« Reply #23 on: January 11, 2018, 09:38:07 pm »
Quote from: driftdiver on January 11, 2018, 09:27:30 pm
@BassWrangler
A fork is not better then a chopstick.   Different tool, different use

When used in the right way with the right foods the chopstick is far superior than a fork.

Like when you go to stab a cherry tomato in your salad with your fork and the tomato goes shooting across the table. That doesn't happen when you use chop sticks to pick it up.
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Re: Why Did We Start Wearing Pants?
« Reply #24 on: January 11, 2018, 09:39:56 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on January 11, 2018, 06:54:19 pm
You want me to fix that? I have answers to the question about what's under a Scotsman's kilt.

Really?  I didn't imagine you to be that type, but whatev, it's very in vogue now.
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