You probably know that some of your grandmothers ,their mothers and thousands of your female ancestors before them did not have priviledge you have today - to open their closet and pick up their favorite pair of pants.
Pants in female fashion are fairly new - women started wearing them only like 96 years ago (ok that is long time ago when put on paper,but have in mind that there are people in their 100's still alive today,so basically only 3-4 generations of women had pleasure of wearing pants in recent history of fashion! ) . Now if you are wondering how it all started continue reading.

After Luisa more and more women dared to experiment with male clothing,and specificly with pants.
Pants offered more than skirts could offer to working women. In 20's and 30's women started wearing pants more often as leisurewear .
Famous women could not resist them either - Marlene Dietrich and Katharine Hepburn were often seen wearing them.
During WWII female industrial workers started wearing their husdbands trousers - wich they altered to suit them. In post war era trousers continued being used by women ,but mostly while they were gardening,socialising and so on.
Women by taking their husdbands pants and clothes in general in those hard times could save some money they would usualy spend on their female clothes .
As you can see the story of women and pants was not an easy one - it started by one brave womans wish for equality,but developed because of the need for practicality . In the end we got wide specter of fashionable pants - wich are both practical ,beautifle and empowering..
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