Crossdressing...Just how does a woman participate?

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Originally Posted by mfblume

What about ancient chinese women in the rice fields? I heard that is where it started. that was the case in the Han Dynasty.

Also...

[edit]Antiquity


Scythian archer. Interior from an Ancient Greek Attic red-figure plate, ca. 520–500 BC, from Vulci. British Museum, London.

Germanic trousers of the 4th century found in the Thorsberg moor, Germany

Trousers first enter recorded history in the 6th century BCE, with the appearance of horse-riding Iranian peoples in Greek ethnography. At this time, not only the Persians, but also allied Central Asian peoples such as the Bactrians, Armenians, and the Tigraxauda Scythians are known to have worn them.[4][5] Trousers are believed to have been worn by both sexes among these early users.

...from

^ Payne, Blanche. History of Costume. Harper & Row , 1965. pp. 49–51
^ book name: The Persian Army 560–330 BC, Author: Nicholas Sekunda, Illustrator: Simon Chew – http://www.ospreypublishing.com/stor...bookcode=p2501
^ Lever, James. Costume and Fashion: A Concise History. Thames and Hudson, 1995, 2010. p. 15.

"...believed to have been." Not quite an emphatic - yes they did, but we can file that away for further study.