Denim skirts out of blue jeans at UPC seminar

[Michlow]

Originally Posted by SOUNWORTHY

Back to the subject. If it was made for men, no matter what you do to it it's still men's apparel. Besides that, most jean skirts look sloppy. I believe women can look holy and still look feminine.

If this is the case, then women's pants would be acceptable as they are made for women

[Aquila]

Originally "pants" were an article of women's clothing. If I remember correctly the oldest record of "pants" being worn shows that they were worn by women in ancient China who worked the rice patties. It was to protect their legs. However, the Chinese military began having cavalry soldiers wear pants while riding horse back. Soon they became standard men's apparel during cultural exchange.

We see the same shift in hosiery.

[Sister Alvear]

Originally Posted by Aquila

Originally "pants" were an article of women's clothing. If I remember correctly the oldest record of "pants" being worn shows that they were worn by women in ancient China who worked the rice patties. It was to protect their legs. However, the Chinese military began having cavalry soldiers wear pants while riding horse back. Soon they became standard men's apparel during cultural exchange.

We see the same shift in hosiery.

Do you know where I could read more about this?

[Sister Alvear]

I enjoy reading history but that is a new one...

[SOUNWORTHY]

Originally Posted by Arphaxad

When everything is recycled noone is going to know anythings origins.
I had a shirt made out of hemp, what about that? What about a "Jerry Garcia" brand tie, would anyone wear a tie with a known druggies name on it?


ARPH

I've got one, my daughters got it for me..Not sure I'cve ever worn it and I don't know who J Garcia is. I mainly don't wear it because it's so loud it might keep me awake in church.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Sister Alvear

I enjoy reading history but that is a new one...

Info for the discussion.

Origin of Pants

Where did "pants" come into this picture? In ca. 800, in comic drama according to Robert Hendrickson in his book " Facts on File, An Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins", the fool in a comic production was called panteleon...all lion. In time this changed to "pantaloon". The actor was dressed in breeches that were tight below the knee but which bloused out in a full puffy fashion from the waist to the knee.

http://www.dl.ket.org/latin3/vocab/e...tory/pants.htm

Braccae: Latin term for leg wrappings of the German tribes. This is the origin of the modern term "breeches".

Breeches: Trousers or pants ending just below the knee--thus commonly referred to as knee breeches. From the late 16th century until the early 19th century, most men and boys wore breeches as their lower body garment. Through the centuries breeches were seen in many forms and lengths. In the early 18th century breeches were barely seen beneath long waistcoats and coats. By the mid-18th century they were more noticeable beneath shorter waistcoats and open coats, and so the cut of breeches became tighter and revealed the shape of the leg. Worn by all levels of society, breeches were made in a great variety of silks, cottons, linens, wools, knits, and leathers. It was the lower classes, peasants, workmen, and sailors that first wore long trousers, and were first derisevely call sans cullotes", without short trousers. Boys from affluent families began the transition to long trousers when in the late 18th century they began wearing long trouser skeleton suits. The term breeches coined the term breeching.

http://histclo.com/style/pants/tro-term.html

Historically, as for the West, trousers have been the standard lower-body clothing item for males since the 16th century; by the late 20th century, they had become prevalent for females as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trousers

[SOUNWORTHY]

My wife weard jean skirts, just below the knee, not down to the tops of her bobby sox and lace up tennies. :0 I think on another post someone referred to the women who wear long jean skirts with tennis shoes and bobby sox and sloppy sweat shirts as blue whales. I didn't say that.

[Arphaxad]

Originally Posted by SOUNWORTHY

I've got one, my daughters got it for me..Not sure I'cve ever worn it and I don't know who J Garcia is. I mainly don't wear it because it's so loud it might keep me awake in church.

He was the leader of the hippie band "Grateful Dead", that's why those ties are so psychodelic.


ARPH

[Sister Alvear]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Info for the discussion.

Origin of Pants

Where did "pants" come into this picture? In ca. 800, in comic drama according to Robert Hendrickson in his book " Facts on File, An Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins", the fool in a comic production was called panteleon...all lion. In time this changed to "pantaloon". The actor was dressed in breeches that were tight below the knee but which bloused out in a full puffy fashion from the waist to the knee.

http://www.dl.ket.org/latin3/vocab/e...tory/pants.htm

Braccae: Latin term for leg wrappings of the German tribes. This is the origin of the modern term "breeches".

Breeches: Trousers or pants ending just below the knee--thus commonly referred to as knee breeches. From the late 16th century until the early 19th century, most men and boys wore breeches as their lower body garment. Through the centuries breeches were seen in many forms and lengths. In the early 18th century breeches were barely seen beneath long waistcoats and coats. By the mid-18th century they were more noticeable beneath shorter waistcoats and open coats, and so the cut of breeches became tighter and revealed the shape of the leg. Worn by all levels of society, breeches were made in a great variety of silks, cottons, linens, wools, knits, and leathers. It was the lower classes, peasants, workmen, and sailors that first wore long trousers, and were first derisevely call sans cullotes", without short trousers. Boys from affluent families began the transition to long trousers when in the late 18th century they began wearing long trouser skeleton suits. The term breeches coined the term breeching.

http://histclo.com/style/pants/tro-term.html

Historically, as for the West, trousers have been the standard lower-body clothing item for males since the 16th century; by the late 20th century, they had become prevalent for females as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trousers

thank you I will enjoy the reading.

[marthaolivia]

Believe it or not I do not even have a denim skirt but I do have some jeans if I want to make one.