2006-10-19 22:53:31 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
khaki's had not been invented yet
2006-10-19 22:55:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because most societies then had very simple clothing, usually loose 'dresses' - very few societies had trousers at that time for either male or females. So the common form of dress were long robes, which would have been impractical for fighting or short skirts - usually worn with a 'wrapped' thong type garment underneath to hold their bits in place.
2006-10-19 22:57:01 · answer #2 · answered by Pington 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Those weren't skirts, they were strips of leather. The rationale behind it was so that it you were fighting someone and they lunged at you with their sword, the sword would stick into the leather but be deflected away from your leg because the thing that it stabbed moved. A spear or knife would go right through traditional pants and right into your flesh and the leather strip 'skirt' prevents that.
2006-10-23 01:29:16 · answer #3 · answered by ishel13 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Romans and the Greeks both thought it unmanly to wear trousers.
They scoffed at the barbarian Persians and Celtic men who wore trousers
2006-10-19 22:56:08 · answer #4 · answered by SteveT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So that when they swung their swords in the ampitheatre, they'd have a counterbalancing pendulum hanging loose down below! lol... Tut Tut!! EVERYONE wore skirts then - not just soldiers. Pants were only invented MUCH later..
Okay, I'm messing with you, but only slightly...
2006-10-19 22:56:47 · answer #5 · answered by Sugar 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's the whole design of it yo! Something like the scottish.I know mostly about the mythology and not the fasahion tastes.Like I know Mars is the god of war and slaugter.
2006-10-20 02:32:45 · answer #6 · answered by Raven's shade 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so their legs had an improved range of movement, and in the hot Mediterranean weather they must have got really Betty Swollocks
2006-10-19 22:58:49 · answer #7 · answered by Mr Gravy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After they won a battle, they would bare their SHORT SWORDS at the enemy as a final act of humiliation!
2006-10-20 04:15:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They seemed uncomfortable with other types of clothing.
The trouser suit or pantsuit were invented later.
2006-10-19 23:05:30 · answer #9 · answered by dodadz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they allow for freedom of movement, and shorts hadn't been invented yet.
2006-10-19 23:01:12 · answer #10 · answered by the man at your window 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the same reason why Scottish men wear kilts!
2006-10-19 22:55:20 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋