• Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
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    Skinny/baggy breeches, and before that, pantaloons. Go back far enough and you might find clay tablets with cuniform text criticizing the youth for wearing their skirts/kilts too tight or loose.

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      Actually, with cuneiform, you might still see people talking about trousers. Pants as we know them were popularized by Persian fashion originally, IIRC (though the garment itself dates back a lot farther to the Asian steppe), and then pollinated to Europe via military expansion and practicality by Rome.