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Cleanup. History of clothing would indicate that initially both men and women wore skirt/dress/gown garments. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.14.127.73 (talk) 18:45, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Title

I think the subject of pants on women is historically and culturaly relevant to warrant an artilce on wikipedia but I think we need a better title. The present one sounds unencyclopedic. --AirLiner (talk) 06:49, 24 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The first sentence is incorrect:

Since the adoption of trousers in Western Europe in Late Antiquity, trousers have been largely worn by men and not by women until the early 20th century.

Secondly all the repeated notions of 'women wearing their husbands clothes in WW2'...? How was that dreamed up? Are you suggesting single women did not work in the war effort? Trousers were quickly fashioned from many sources of remaining material.

Thirdly, the 'English' article is written in a fairly poor standard of English.

Please improve this page

This page is currently full of generalisations, lacks citations and is inconsistent. For example, the word "pants" means different things in different cultures, the word "trousers" might be more suitable but whatever is chosen, it would be good if it was used consistently rather than switching back and forth.

The introduction paragraphs also contradict themselves; the first limits 20th century use to "During WW2 wearing their husbands pants" and then the 1970s. Then in paragraph 4, it mentions Dietrich and Hepburn wearing them and popularising them in the '30s, as well as post WW2 casual wear. Nicole A. Jenkins (talk) 07:00, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I put this article together from chips of other existing pages, but I have little familiarity myself on the topic other than from my experience in department store sales, so I cannot fix most of these problems. In response to your comments, I placed a cleanup tag on the top for now. Tatterfly (talk) 17:22, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Was it Chanel who introduced a fashion of women's trousers? Gantuya eng (talk) 02:13, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Inquiry

Where is the men wearing dresses article? NorthernThunder (talk) 08:25, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is a collection of article that have been created because one person had the desire to create that article. Any future changes thereafter occur because one or more people have desired to make those changes. If an article is yet to be created and you feel it is missing, have references on the subject, and you think you can create it, go ahead! Also, just to let you know, there is an article called Men's skirts. Tatterfly (talk) 23:43, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Gitanas

Gitanas and Roma women in general wear skirts more often than Gadjis. Should this be explained? --Error (talk) 00:08, 28 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Inquiry II

(forgive me I can't remember my password or my screenname really, I *think* it's RivkaRebecca or RebeccaRivka...one) This article is moreso towards the Western world's history on pants/trousers. What about turkish women in trousers? What about Asian women in general in trousers? What about Muslim women that DO wear trousers as a part of their religious garments? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.183.122.89 (talk) 15:27, 1 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Medieval history

Pope Nicholas I said that it was acceptable for women to wear pants, if that were the custom of the people, in his letter to the Bulgars in AD 866.

For whether you or your women wear or do not wear pants (femoralia) neither impedes your salvation nor leads to any increase of your virtue.

Aside from that, this article seems to be unaware that there was history before 1800, or outside Western Europe and North America. Argyriou (talk) 19:17, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pope Nicholas I's letter did, in no way, abrogate the then current and subsequent Christian custom of women wearing dresses and skirts, which persisted for many centuries. Saint Thomas taught this explicitly,

"Reply to Objection 3. As stated in the foregoing Article, outward apparel should be consistent with the estate of the person, according to the general custom. Hence it is in itself sinful for a woman to wear man's clothes, or vice versa; especially since this may be a cause of sensuous pleasure; and it is expressly forbidden in the Law (Deuteronomy 22) because the Gentiles used to practice this change of attire for the purpose of idolatrous superstition. Nevertheless this may be done sometimes without sin on account of some necessity, either in order to hide oneself from enemies, or through lack of other clothes, or for some similar motive." (Summa Theologica, II II, Q. 169, A.2)

Pope Nicholas was simply saying that the Bulgars could continue their existing form of dress, if they wished to. He did not say that Christian women could abandon their form of dress by adopting the Bulgar dress. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.20.243.177 (talk) 16:28, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

baptists?

I was surprised that baptists weren't included in the section about religion prohibiting women to wear pants. Most baptist churches strongly encourage women to wear skirts and dresses and not pants. There are exceptions to this but the majority does believe this. Just thought that should be in there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.229.42.182 (talk) 23:28, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Women Pirates

In the 17th and 18th century,women pirates was also weared pants.Why I don't find that in the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.223.217.249 (talk) 20:13, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have a reliable source for this? If so, you might want to add the info to the article. --Macrakis (talk) 02:02, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Terrible lead

The lead currently reads:

Women wearing trousers were thought by some to be historically less common, apart from Amazonian women, until the early 20th century. Now, the majority of Western women wear pants at times and skirts at other times, both being seen as acceptable and fashionable.

This is a terrible terrible lead. "thought by some"? "apart from Amazonian women" (is this referring to the mythical Amazons? or to the women of the Amazon basin of South America? The second sentence is only about "Western woman". What about the first sentence? --Macrakis (talk) 02:02, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]