Pants History|"Toxic Masculinity"
Vogue smart idea to destroy “toxic masculinity”, was to shoot a cover with Harry Style wearing a dress, of course this had people with two neurons and common sense reacting to it, Candace Owens, one of the loudest voices in the critical thinker in conservative atmosphere, had Hollywood celebrities like Olivia Wilde (who thinks that by posting pictures of black people on her Instagram is helping their community) and “liberals”, attacking her after she twitted “Bring back manly men”… is there something wrong with this tweet? because i don’t see anything wrong.
Some of the comments were, she received:
“But you wear suits” , “Clothes have not to gender” , and “The world is PROGRESSING”
Why don’t we go down memory lane and find out why pants came to exist and when and why ladies started embracing pants as a daily piece to weat.
1. The oldest known trousers were found at the Yanghai cemetery in Turpan, Xinjiang, western China, and dated to the period between the 10th and the 13th centuries BC. Made of wool, the trousers had straight legs and wide crotches and were likely made for horseback riding.
The development of pants came alongside the domestication of horses and served as an indicator of class and profession. People who rode horses needed to have a way of protecting their legs and remaining clothed, as a simple wrap garment would not remain on the body. Some early variants involved using the same single pieces of cloth and tying it through the legs to create trousers. Horses were. Initially domesticated in Central Asia sometime between 3500 and 3000 BCE. Horses were a signifier of prestige, and in many cultures horses and the equipment used in riding them or in using them to drive chariots were included in the tombs of the elite. In these earliest horse riding cultures then trousers, as a form of clothing connected to horses, also served as a sign of prestige.
2. After pants were accepted by the Romans they became a more standard mode of dress across the Western world. As centuries went on it became those who did not wear pants who stood out, such as Scottish soldiers who wore kilts into battle up into the 20th century. Even as in previous civilizations pants had served as a designator of completing a specific task for the upper class of later Western civilizations they serve to show modernity and how the wearer fits the mold of masculinity. By being prepared to carry out physical activities and not being constrained by tight clothing or billowing robes, new fashions showed a change in the cultural mindset as to what was appropriate for these men to accomplish. To show how this change occurred it helps to look at the specific cases of Imperial Russia and Regency England.
3. The development of pants allowed for a greater range of freedom and movement. While this initially was just for the warrior and lower classes, specifically the males in many societies, over history the wearing of pants has come to symbolize not only a necessity of movement (as seen when worn by warriors or working peasants) but the choice to be active and to enjoy physical freedoms. Wearing pants showed cultural and societal changes not only in the ideas of what is masculine and what is feminine but also in what is expected of all members of society.
4. In the Western world, Historically, in that part of the world, women have worn dresses and skirt-like garments while men have worn pants (trousers). During the late 1800s, women started to wear pants for industrial work. During World War II, women wore their husband's pants while they took on jobs, and in the 1970s, pants became especially fashionable for women.
5. Although trousers for women in western countries did not become fashion items until the later 20th century, women began wearing men's trousers (suitably altered) for outdoor work a hundred years earlier.
The Wigan pit brow girl
6. The Wigan pit brow girls scandalized Victorian society by wearing trousers for their dangerous work in the coal mines. They wore skirts over their trousers and rolled them up to their waist to keep them out of the way.
7. Women working the ranches of the 19th century American West also wore trousers for riding, and in the early 20th century aviatrices and other working women often wore trousers.
8. During World War II, women working in factories and doing other forms of "men's work" on war service wore trousers when the work demanded it, and in the post-war era, trousers became acceptable casual wear for gardening, the beach, and other leisure pursuits.
In Britain during the Second World War, because of the rationing of clothing, many women took to wearing their husbands' civilian clothes, including their trousers, to work while their husbands were away in the armed forces. This was partly because they were seen as practical garments of workwear, and partly to allow women to keep their clothing allowance for other uses.
9. Paul Poiret, (born April 20, 1879, Paris, France—died April 30, 1944, Paris) Poiret was particularly noted for his Neoclassical and Orientalist styles, for advocating the replacement of the corset with the brassiere, and for the introduction of the hobble skirt, a vertical tight-bottomed style that confined women to mincing steps. “I freed the bust,” boasted Poiret, “and I shackled the legs.”
10. Coco Chanel, the modern silhouette of women was born in 1914 and Coco Chanel was one of its bigger collaborators during its creation. Just like Poiret, Coco disliked corsets, whale bones, and anything that would keep women's from mobility and the their natural body shape.
In the 1920s, she made short hair and the use of pants in women trendy, following the spirit of women who participated in wars.
9. Paul Poiret, (born April 20, 1879, Paris, France—died April 30, 1944, Paris) Poiret was particularly noted for his Neoclassical and Orientalist styles, for advocating the replacement of the corset with the brassiere, and for the introduction of the hobble skirt, a vertical tight-bottomed style that confined women to mincing steps. “I freed the bust,” boasted Poiret, “and I shackled the legs.”
10. Coco Chanel, the modern silhouette of women was born in 1914 and Coco Chanel was one of its bigger collaborators during its creation. Just like Poiret, Coco disliked corsets, whale bones, and anything that would keep women's from mobility and the their natural body shape.
In the 1920s, she made short hair and the use of pants in women trendy, following the spirit of women who participated in wars.
Now, what did we learn about this backwards fashion chronograph? Pants were created out of actual HUMAN necessity, like physical activities, fighting wars, and working, I would call that progress, but what is the progress or purpose of men wearing dresses, besides emotional “needs”? Why is it that liberals want to add cool names to mental issues like personality problems, depression, confusion, low self-esteem, chemical imbalance, etc., instead of treating or dealing with the problem? Why is it that they want to call masculinity “toxic”, what is toxic about it? Because as far as I know toxicity comes from both genders, not only men!