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Signup for your FREE trial to Wondrium here: Our bifurcated garments go by many names- trousers, pants, drawers, bloomers, pantaloons, trunks, hose, etc. But the battle of pants vs trousers took off in the mid 19th century. So let's jump back to look at the possible origins of both of these terms and how we've changed our perception of them over the last few centuries! Along the way we'll find bad jokes, political mistakes, and cries for battle. The absurdity that is the story of “pants“ is truly worthy of a Muppets retelling. The journey to get to “a pair of pants“ (as is said in America), rather than “trews“ is hundreds of years. Why “a pair“? And how did we get such a silly sounding word as Pantaloons? Well, it certainly sounds silly to our modern ears. Decades of time have relegated Pantaloons and Bloomers to historically mythological undergarments (much like Pants has become for the English). But did those term

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