why are pants called pants?
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my guess is that is it pantaloons shortened
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When only women are around, most Orthodox Jewish women will wear other clothing, like pants, bathing suits, tank tops, etc.  Very few don't, and go to the beach wearing long loose dresses.\nSome Orthodox Jewish religious authorities allow women to wear modest pants for certain activities, like hiking, horseback riding, and sking.\nOrthodox women don't wear pants because they are considered men's clothing, but if in certain situations wearing pants is more modest it is allowed, and if pants are appropriate attire for women, it is also allowed, even in front of men.\n\nWhen playing basketball or throwing a frisbee around with friends, many girls wear pants with a skirt on top.
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It's a pair of pants, so it it's a pair of underpants.\nGeorge Carlin makes a lot of observations like this such as;\n"Why, do we drive on Parkways, and park on driveways?"
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We still do wear them.  Now its just for tradition, and to keep our pants up.
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Why do peoples' parts have different names if they are all joined together?
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Cloth chart sizes are weird, but don't you own any jeans?\n\n34 means that he has a 34 inch waist.  Most mens' pants are like this:  30 X 32.  Which means 30 inch waist, 32 inch length.  So whatever your waist size and leg length are - that would be your pant size in Men's pants.  But all women's jeans that I've seen also use this measuring style.  \n\nFor some reason women's pants also have their own measuring system like 10.  But same with Men's shirts - most shirts just have a number like 16, 17, 17.5 - but the real size is the chest width and arm length.  It's weird.
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It is a popular word for a pair of jeans where the waistline hangs below where your lower back stops being called your lower back.
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I've been to lots of accident scenes and dealt with victims of violence and the answer is yes, people fill their pants all the time.  It's due to the fight or flight mechanism built into our bodies.  The body pumps blood to our vital organs (this is why our hands shake when we're scared)  The body also prepares to either fight or run so it gets rid of anything that isn't immediately associated with survival....so we puke and / or pee n poop our pants.
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Pants only became a single garment late in their history. Until the late seventeenth century, the garments used to cover legs (most often called "hose") were two sleeves of fabric, tied to the belt with laces (usually called "points")and open at the crotch, which was covered by the tunic, breeches, a codpiece, or not at all. In the high middle ages, only the men of the nobility were allowed to wear short tunics which exposed their genitals -- commoners had to cover up. In the eighteenth century, there was quite a bit of migration in the names of garments, and we ended up calling hose "trousers" and stockings "hose." Pants, short for "pantaloons" and named after a stock character of the Commedia dell'Arte, is an American expression which until recently was considered quite vulgar by the Brits. In any case, whether pants, trousers, breeches, britches, knickers or shorts, the concept has always remained plural even though the garment became singular.
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I definitely wore the pants in my last relationship but my significant other wears the pants in my current relationship. I like it that way.\n\nHowever, no I am not a doormat. Just because I don't wear the pants doesn't mean that he wipes his feet all over me. I'm not dead or stupid.
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LOL Funny topic. Here is a helpful link.\nhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pants+party
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Pants.  Socks are last.
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Its not a superstition thing as much as it is a cosmetic thing.  Players who wear high socks do it as an alternative to tucking the pantlegs under the legs themselves.  This way there is extra padding by the knee as well as the socks are all the way up.  The look is solid, and the comfort of not having the pants moving all over is great.
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Must be for style as I was noticing that each snowboarder's pants got lower the farther they were down the halfpipe.\n\nMaybe the baggy clothes act as a parachute slowing their descent allowing for more twists while in the air.
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To expand on the other answers, the name comes from the act of "scrubbing in" prior to surgery, which involves changing into a clean surgical outfit (aka scrubs), meticulously washing the hands and arms ("scrubbing"), and then walking into the OR to put on a sterile gown and gloves prior to the surgery.  \nNurses had not worn scrubs traditionally until the last 20 or so years, since the classic nursing uniform was the all white uniform that is now only seen in Halloween costumes...
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Pair, pare, pear. LOL....language is a mystery.\n\nPeople want to know why we don't say "a pair of bras." Also, it's strange that the phrase pair of pants is the only way to refer to one such item, since the word pants is always plural. This explains why the singular pant is sometimes used, especially by the clothing and fashion industry. Though jarring to some people, singular pant has been in use since the late 19th century. \n\nPants is an Americanism first recorded in 1840, and was considered a vulgar term for at least a century afterwards. It is a shortened form of pantaloons, from Pantalone, a stock character in Italian commedia dell'arte, who wore a combination of loose breeches and stockings. The term pantaloons is first recorded in English about 1600, and was applied at different periods to leg garments of different styles. \n\nSo why do we say "pair of pants/shorts/trousers/slacks?" Until the late 17th century, leg garments were made in two parts, one sleeve of fabric for each leg, so calling them a "pair" made perfect sense. The two pieces of woven cloth (or animal hides) were tied to a belt to hold them up. Supposedly the resulting indecent exposure made the "codpiece" a useful invention. From the Columbia Encyclopedia I learned the history of pants: After the Middle Ages, a loose trouser, bound at the ankle, was worn. Then the lower legs became more fitted, and these "breeches" were shortened to the knee and worn with fitted cloths called "hose." Breeches grew shorter and hose became longer; by about 1450 the hose reached the hips and were attached by points (laces) to the doublet. Later the breeches and hose formed one garment, like tights. As the upper part of the hose became more puffed out, a separation occurred: the upper part was called "trunk hose," and the leg coverings were called "stockings." Trousers grew longer and stockings shorter. In the early 17th century, men wore pantaloon breeches, but a tight-fitting trouser was introduced in the late 18th century, eventually superseding knee breeches, or knickers. The so called "trunk hose" evolved into what we now call "pants," and the so called "stockings" are what we now also call "hose."
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I agree with Whiz and Kd.  I am a teacher and I'm constantly telling the boys to pull up their pants.  I have plastic ties that I put on their pants to hold them up if I have to ask them more than once.  It's a disgusting look and it makes them walk like a duck.\n\nIf they knew where it really originated from maybe some of them wouldn't wear their pants like that.  It comes from men in prison.  If their pants were worn that way it meant they were "the girls" if you know what I mean.