Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1913 — Early Days of Trousers. [ARTICLE]

Early Days of Trousers.

Ancient Britons were among the people whose wearing of trousers was

noted by the more civilized ancients who eschewed them. “Braccae” (“breeches”) seem to have improssed the Roman mind very much as Chinese pigtails did the modern west Gaul beyond the Alpß was at one tlffie known as Gallia Braccata—Trouserland; and Cicero taunts a man with having sprung from “trousered’* ancestors. As Roman ways degenerated, the use of trousers began to creep In, and it is recorded ♦hat Alexander Se verus wore white ones, previous em perors’ trousers having been crimson