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Janis
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From: Robyn Coburn
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 3:20 PM
Subject: Spam Alert: [Unschooling-dotcom] Trousers (was make-up on kids)


Mosaics from ancient Rome show women entertainers in bikini underwear -
strophium and pagne.



Reliefs from the 2nd century AD show Roman soldiers clearly in some type
of pant - like pedal pushers - right beside their skirted counterparts.



Long pants were worn by women and men in the Byzantine time under the
long and short tunics, an influence from Persian pantaloons and Iranian
costumes.



Pants are shown in a fresco from 3rd century BC and the text of my book
(20000 years of Fashion - Francios Boucher) says they came from the
mountain dwellers of the Steppes of Central Asia. The book calls the
trousers "an innovation of capital importance" and "indissolubly linked
with the use of the horse in the Steppes".

It is also suggested that trousers were the garb of the affluent - which
makes sense from the complexity of the construction in comparison to a
tunic type of garment.



Robyn Coburn





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