Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — How Trousers Originated. [ARTICLE]

How Trousers Originated.

The women of Judah, it seems, were the first wearers of garments in bifurcated form, and man, perceiving the convenience and comfort of this article of dress, evolved by the superior Intelligence of woman, appropriated it to his use, and doomed bis womankind to incumber their limbs with flowing robes, which render it impossible for them to cope with man in the useful avocations.