Image: Germanic trousers of the 4th century found in the Thorsberg moor, Germany Trousers are an item of clothing tailored to be worn on the lower part of the body from the waist to the ankles, covering both legs separately Nomadic Eurasian horsemen such as the Iranian Scythians, became early adopters of trousers. In ancient China only soldiers wore trousers. Men's clothes in Hungary in the 15th century consisted of a shirt and trousers as underwear. Trousers appeared in Western European culture at several points in history, but gained their current predominance only in the 16th century. In England in the twelfth century, the rustic often wore long garments to the ankle, rather like trousers. Trouserlike garments, which became rare again in the thirteenth century, vanished during the fourteenth century and scarcely reappeared for six hundred years. (1)
No comments:
Post a Comment