Where does the tradition of women wearing skirts or dresses and men wearing trousers come from?

[dave50]

Is it to give men easier access to have sex when women wear skirts or dresses?

[ummmm]

Men still wear skirts in Scotland.

[snags]

I am wearing one now.

[Barmaid]

I'm guessing that if you go back far enough men wore tunic type things too with a hose. However, riding off to battle in a tunic I should imagine was pretty uncomfortable (all that chafing) so from the hose came trousers. I have no idea, its just my best guess.

[albaqwerty]

I doubt very much it is a tradition, if it was for easier access then the men would be wearing skirts too surely?

[MarkRae]

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

[albaqwerty]

ummm, it's KILTS unless you're Tony I s'pose :-)

[ummmm]

I was thinking about Tony when I posted :-)

[MarkRae]

Kilts go back only as far as the end of the sixteenth century, though...

[albaqwerty]

Tone and his goats go back further though.

lol ummm x

[friedgreentomato]

And kilts were only worn by the gentry in the beginning - the common scots man wore a plaid.

Which is a strip of material wrapped around the body to form a skirt and a covering for the top half - it was then unwrapped and slept in wrapped around the body in a different manner

[tonyav]

Shhhhaaaaaddddappp. I have tried to avoid this thread lol.

[Kiki-frog]

Alba - please could you head over to Jemisa' thread about Strictly. Chaptaz and I need your expert opinion.

Sorry, dave, but this is urgent.

[owdhamer]

Men used to wear short dresses,but for deceny's sake they now wear trousers.

[owdhamer]

Are vou trying to say Scotland has more than its share of trannies ummm.

[tonyav]

Hadn't the ancient Greeks and Roman men used to wear skirt type clothes ?.

[albaqwerty]

Togas Tone, togas, not skirts :-D

[tonyav]

The Roman soldiers didn't wear Toga's though did they ?.

[albaqwerty]

lol true, they wore skirts

<legs it>

[tonyav]

LOL ^^^^.