How did pants become associated with masculinity and skirts associated with femininity?
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>implying you need pants to be a man
Barbarian shits please leave
>>1206827
t. scotsman trying to disguise himself as a roman
>>1206730
It's easier to fuck someone with a skirt than with pants.
>>1206730
MODERN PERVERSION
WOMEN MUST BE TAMED AND COVERED إن !شاء الله
Northern Europe and the collapse of civilized, pagan Mediterranean society. The norms of the pale barbarians, pants and all, became the norms for everyone. Now we live in a world where people in hot climates are forced to suffer through waistbands, collars, and suffocating pantlegs.
>>1207227
Toga revolution when, Latin brothers?
>>1207227
Ha-ha!
You didn't answer the question though.
>>1207249
Well that was the start, men wore pants while women could keep wearing loose dresses as they always had.
Eventually loose, flowing garments = womanly
Stockings and pants = manly
This happened almost everywhere through western influence except the islamic world which vigorously resisted it.
If I had to pull something out of my ass I'd say it's because pants are better suited for traditionally masculine professions like soldiers or laborers and so men started wearing them more and more, while pants vs skirts doesn't really make a difference in home-making and other feminine stuff so women just stuck to skirts.
>>1207261
Yeah, it really is mostly about functionality.
Research into fashion habits has shown that the use of underwear increased dramatically after 1200, both on the continent and in England, as more people moved into towns. The International Medieval Congress heard yesterday that the rural habit of wearing nothing under a rough smock or leggings was frowned on as peasants developed into tradesmen and found themselves running shops with customers of the opposite sex.
As underwear became more popular, so the supply of rags increased significantly
Rags from discarded pants and knickers led to a 13th century breakthrough in the making of cheap paper, undercutting expensive parchment
This cheap paper was available when William Caxton set up England's first printing press in 1476.
>>1207261
>pants are better suited for traditionally masculine professions like soldiers or laborers
How
>>1207298
Protects the entire leg, crotch etc.
Togas and such were aristocratic wear after all
>>1207298
It cover your leg without limiting the movements
>>1207318
Roman soldiers wore a Sagum, which is a shorter robe, and laborers wore a tunic without a cloak.
Really, pants are great when it's wet and cold but actually not THAT practical besides. Some professions, such as working a steel mill or oil rig or something, necessitate pants but those working conditions obviously didn't exist when the robe was getting phased out.
>>1207320
Unless your pants are loose it does restrict your movement to some degree.
Horse riding and a cooler europe during the dark age and medieval age.
pants were superior for riding a horse and staying warm. Men rose horses and were outside a lot as they did war and work.
women got to stay in skirts because they didn't ride horses for war or do heavy outside work in the winter.
Skirts let air flow through and that way girls vaginas don't small as bad. Mind you that this in ye olde days.
>>1207272
>>Yeah, it really is mostly about functionality.
functionality is achieved through high waist pants, not low raise pants which we have today.
>>1207570
We also live in a post-functional age.
>>1207227
This. Fun fact: before the Barbarian invasions Romans thought pants were effeminate
>>1207589
but then they learned how much better it was to wear pants while riding horses in a war.
People did not wear pants untill the late eighteenth century though, at least not trousers. There is a continuous development of european men's fashion that starts with woolen hose in the dark ages untill the late renassaince and reformation period, when for whatever reason people started wearing hose with breeches. Breeches were used untill the french revolution when burgouis fashion became more popular among europoors.
You can clearly see how it is due to cold weather and not practical reasons such as riding - tight hose is really terrible for day to day usage
>>1207288
oh hey, an actual good post. of course its ignored.
>>1207260
Id resisted it too if id live in a 40°+ desert/mountainvalley
you wear pants for riding war horses astride
I enjoy wearing pants
>>1207288
wait how did excess cloth translate into paper, which is made with wood pulp?
>>1207980
Clothes back then were made of wood.
>>1207980
>cloth translate into paper
look at your banknotes, pleb
>>1207227
I have never seen a pale german in my life. Ive seen plenty of pale italians
>>1207980
Alchemy my man #staywoke
>>1207227
I live in NC and the state is hot as fuck. I often just wear basketball shorts for whatever I'm doing.
Fuck pants.
Women used to be pregnant a lot back then so naturally expanding clothing like skirts and dresses made more sense than pants.
women started wearing skirts because you can just bend over, flip it up and start fucking
source: my ass, but I think it's worth considering
>>1207589
Roman soldiers were already wearing them centuries earlier on the northern frontiers and they had become ubiquitous centuries before the end of the West. The Roman army being entirely non-Mediterranean origin by the 2nd century probably helped its proliferation.
>>1206827
Still, what they wore was less revealing
>>1208247
Makes sense.
>>1207589
True but exaggerated, probably at its height during the republic when Romans were true Romans, not the case during the Empire
>>1208273
>>1207288
I read that most Europeans (and especially the men) generally went commando until the 19th century.
Some studies actually suggest that wearing tunics/kilts is better for men, as the lower temperature increases sperm production.
http://www.emaxhealth.com/1506/wear-kilt-increase-sperm-count
>>1206730
because before sanitation women needed to keep their crotches well aired
>>1208032
spotted the welfare babby
>>1206730
Periods.
>>1206730
So that men can access women easily
[spoiler]Don't take that seriously, I just have a really bad CFNM fetish[/spoiler]
They're called trousers you fucks.
>>1206730
Better ask why folks started wearing pants in the first place. Or breechcloths.
>>1207604
>yfw Alexander and his cavalry wore miniskirts and no underwear
>yfw they would all have their dicks out in the open if they charged against the wind
This is not how I want to picture ancient warfare
>>1207639
tight hose not good for horse riding? Have you like ever seen a televised dressage thing?
