What are ports? This is a men's wardrobe item that protects the lower body, including each leg separately, from the cold, and covers the legs almost completely. Various aids are used as a fixer for the sutures on the body, for example webbing, suspenders, buttons. When did this common garment appear? What is the name of this wardrobe? You will learn about this from our article.
Eurasia and Ancient Russia
On the continent of Eurasia, the first pants firmly entered the wardrobe of the Scythians, Persians, Germans and Huns. Why is this noun used only in the plural? Initially, each leg was a separate piece of fabric, they were not connected to each other.
What are ports? These are the same pants that were worn in Ancient Russia in the ninth century. Initially, this item of clothing was called ports, later - ports. The more familiar to us the word "pants" appeared in the everyday life of the inhabitants of ancient Russia a whole century later. There were such synonyms for the word "pants" as underpants, trousers, and underneath. The word "portki" was used (and is now used in army life) exclusively in Ancient Russia.
Ancient Rome and the Ancient East
Initially, in ancient Rome, trousers were considered a garment inherent only to barbarians, but during protracted wars they firmly entered the everyday life of legionnaires, and then went into the wardrobe of the rest of the Romans. Then the pants were more like shorts, because short pants were invisible under traditional Roman clothing.
In the Ancient East, pants were worn by both men and women. Then, women's pants served as underwear, and their absence under clothes was considered simply indecent.
Ancient China and Ancient Japan
As in ancient Rome, in ancient China, the word "portka" was firmly associated with barbarians, but since the time when a cavalry regiment, one and all dressed in trousers, appeared in China, the latter have gained incredible popularity among the Chinese people. Women wore pants not only as underwear, as women of the Ancient East and Ancient Asia, but also as an independent item of clothing, which often replaced the skirt that was usual for those times.
In Japan, in the Middle Ages, pants were a luxury item. They were called hakama, they could only be worn by representatives of the upper classes. The common people wore a loincloth, since they were forbidden to wear the studied wardrobe item. It was possible to see a commoner in his pants only at his own wedding. Often, portraits were worn by Japanese samurai and representatives of the Japanese aristocracy.