so i started wrapping my eagles blanket around my waste and pinning it kinda like a hawaiian lava lava when i walk around the house and honestly it is the ultimate luxury.
Pants aren't actually even that old an invention when put in historical perspective... and for quite a long time men didn't wear them, either.
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Most cultures had skirts, tunics, etc because they were simple to make and wear. And it wasn't uncommon for men to wear shorter outfits than the women...
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"Throughout history, the length of a person’s clothing has been a sure indication of wealth, partly because fabric was so expensive and partly because impractical clothing showed that you did not need to work.
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Nobles wore clothes at ankle length; peasants were content with a tunic that reached the thigh. At the beginning of the fourteenth century, there was little distinction between male and female clothing: nobles wore long, flowing, or pleated robes with an overtunic or cloak and a hat or cap.
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Later in the period, from the 1340s onward, younger men began to show off their shapely legs in short tunics cut to the hip and colored stockings, a fashion led by the Italians."
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Tbh the part I find amusing is how men's hemlines slowly got shorter and shorter and shorter until leggings had to be worn as a necessity, whereas women were required to keep their legs covered. Oh how the tables have turned
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Most cultures had skirts, tunics, etc because they were simple to make and wear. And it wasn't uncommon for men to wear shorter outfits than the women...
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"Throughout history, the length of a person’s clothing has been a sure indication of wealth, partly because fabric was so expensive and partly because impractical clothing showed that you did not need to work.
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Nobles wore clothes at ankle length; peasants were content with a tunic that reached the thigh. At the beginning of the fourteenth century, there was little distinction between male and female clothing: nobles wore long, flowing, or pleated robes with an overtunic or cloak and a hat or cap.
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Later in the period, from the 1340s onward, younger men began to show off their shapely legs in short tunics cut to the hip and colored stockings, a fashion led by the Italians."
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