Women and pants

[13pollitos]

Culture plays a major role in the way people dress. Many places have distinctly feminine and masculine clothing.

Climate also plays a role. I have a former neighbor and very close friend who is originally from a culture that ladies always wear robes. They also wear different colors and styles that identify them to be in a certain tribe and level of society. Men may wear western clothing but for ceremonies they also wear robes or i don’t know the proper term. They are similar to the women’s clothing but you can tell by the style and colors they are for the men. When her family moved to the US from Africa she had decided to adopt our clothing but only dresses and skirts. She said no way was she ever putting in a pair of pants. About two after the Army moved them to Alaska, she decided pants were perfect.

I met her after she moved from Alaska to South Carolina. She laughed as she was telling me about her change of heart. In South Carolina she went back to wearing skirts most of the time but not as strictly as before Alaska.

Climate helps form a culture’s style of dressing.

 

[BartholomewB]

St. Joan of Arc, burned at the stake, 1431. Canonized, 1920. It took her 489 years to get there. The long delay must have been because of the Vatican’s suspicions about her habit of wearing pants.

 

[Secant]

I have always heard that our Lady of La Vang appeared in traditional clothing for the women in that Vietnamese region, the ao dai, a tunic worn atop slacks.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

From what I read, St. Joan having worn pants didn’t help matters when she was on trial. She argued that they helped protect her against being raped, if I remember right.