According to historical records, skirts appeared long ago.
In China, as early as Shang Dynasty, men began to wear skirts, while women did not form the habit of wearing skirts until Han Dynasty. Shang dynasty clothes were mainly worn on the upper body, with the collar open to the right and the clothes reaching the knees. In the lower part of the body, they wear them? Clothes? Clothes reach the ankle, a wide belt is tied around the waist, and an axe-shaped ornament covers the knee in front of the abdomen, so it is called? Cover your knees? In the Zhou dynasty, which paid attention to elegant manners, two pieces of clothes were combined into a cylinder, which was similar to today's skirt and more elegant than that of Shang dynasty, but it was inconvenient to ride. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the top and bottom clothes were simply put together and worn separately.
Two, cover your thighs to your knees?
With the discovery and development of cinnabar, Shang and Zhou nobles especially admired it? Red and yellow? Color, so that dyeing technology has been further developed, but also? Hide your knees? As a symbol of status and rank. The knee with yellow as the basic color and red as the ornament can better reflect its aristocratic status, but no matter how the style of the knee changes, it is always worn. A skirt? In the form of.
Changed three skirts.
In the past, the trend that men only wore skirts was replaced by trousers. Although they also wear robes to go out, this is no longer just to cover up their shame with clothes? Clothes? , but more? Pants? Especially before the Han dynasty, especially in summer, people can only wear it? Clothes? Travel, but then what? Playboy? To become popular, it must be in? Clothes? Add a pair of trousers, because it is not easy to see people when they are worn inside, so some people will make poor quality cloth strips. Pants? Some people think that it was not until the Han Dynasty that it became popular.
In short, compared with skirts, pants appeared very late. Even in the Han Dynasty, people could still wear clothes instead of pants to keep cool in summer. However, from the Han Dynasty, it was more polite to add a pair of trousers to clothes. Whether going out to meet guests or friends, it is a formal etiquette.