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Whenever you see a film set in ancient Greece or Rome - or anywhere for that matter - the men are all wearing togas or kilts or are wrapped in a cloak. How much closer to our own age do we have to come to see men wearing trousers? In fact they, or something very much like them, were worn in ancient times: the Chinese dressed in trousers tied at the waist and often at the ankles to protect them against the cold, while Asian nomads wore something similar for riding. In Persia too, they were traditional for both men and women. This was a form of dress that found its way to central Europe by 400 BC. In the following century, Celtic people began wearing similar garments, while the English wore ankle-length britches until about the 1100s, when they adopted knee-length britches- whether as a matter of fashion or practicality it's difficult to say. What became known as bell-bottoms, which were fashionable in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and made a comeback in the 21st century, were worn by English sailors from about the 1730s, but trousers only really became fashionable in the first quarter of the 19'h century, and usually only for informal day wear.
