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icymist

(15,888 posts) Sun Jun 1, 2014, 11:38 PM Jun 2014

These Are The World's Oldest Pants

ROUGH RIDERS The oldest known trousers, including this roughly 3,000-year-old pair with woven leg decorations, belonged to nomadic horsemen in Central Asia.

Two men whose remains were recently excavated from tombs in western China put their pants on one leg at a time, just like the rest of us. But these nomadic herders did so between 3,300 and 3,000 years ago, making their trousers the oldest known examples of this innovative apparel, a new study finds.

Read more: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-pants-worn-horse-riders-3000-years-ago#ixzz33RvzE578

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These Are The World's Oldest Pants (Original Post) icymist Jun 2014 OP

Awesome! cyberswede Jun 2014 #1

I'm sorry, but I have to ask: Did the wearer use boxers or briefs? Tyrs WolfDaemon Jun 2014 #2

Umm, Yes. icymist Jun 2014 #3

That works for me Tyrs WolfDaemon Jun 2014 #4

Hmm. Sounds like your dad is a really smart man. icymist Jun 2014 #5

cyberswede

(26,117 posts)

1. Awesome!

Reply to icymist (Original post)

Sun Jun 1, 2014, 11:55 PM

Jun 2014

I like that they gave them aesthetic embellishments.

Tyrs WolfDaemon

(2,289 posts)

2. I'm sorry, but I have to ask: Did the wearer use boxers or briefs?

Reply to icymist (Original post)

Mon Jun 2, 2014, 09:39 PM

Jun 2014

icymist

(15,888 posts)

3. Umm, Yes.

Reply to Tyrs WolfDaemon (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 2, 2014, 09:58 PM

Jun 2014

Tyrs WolfDaemon

(2,289 posts)

4. That works for me

Reply to icymist (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 2, 2014, 10:13 PM

Jun 2014

Your answer reminds me of a story my dad likes to tell from his days at Law School. He went into a particular test not having read all the cases he should have (he readily admits that part) and of course one of the big questions was to discuss how one of those cases relates to some subject. Knowing he couldn't leave it blank, he replied as best he could. His answer was simply: 'Some say yes and some say no and I tend to agree with them.'

He got credit, but only because the grader laughed at reading it.

icymist

(15,888 posts)

5. Hmm. Sounds like your dad is a really smart man.

Reply to Tyrs WolfDaemon (Reply #4)

Mon Jun 2, 2014, 10:19 PM

Jun 2014

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