At what point in history did women first wear trousers?

Answer 1

Women have always worn the trousers....they just hid them under long dresses!!

Answer 2

Chinese women seem to have always worn them going back nearly 3 millenia.
Trousers were seen as barbaric by the Romans and Greeks so didn't take off here till the fall of Rome.
There are a few depictions of Saxon women but I don't remember any wearing trousers.
Anne Bonny and Mary Read definately did wear trousers in the 17th century.

Answer 3

Women's trousers

Wigan pit brow girl.Although trousers for women did not become fashion items until the later 20th century, women began wearing men's trousers (suitably altered) for outdoor work a hundred years earlier.

The Wigan pit brow girls scandalized Victorian society by wearing trousers for their dangerous work in the coal mines. They wore skirts over their trousers, rolled up to the waist to keep them out of the way.

Women working the ranches of the 19th century American West also wore trousers for riding, and in the early 20th century aviatrices and other working women often wore trousers. Actresses Marlene Dietrich and Katharine Hepburn were often photographed in trousers from the 1930s and helped make trousers acceptable for women. During World War II, women working in factories and doing other forms of "men's work" on war service wore trousers when the work demanded it, and in the post-war era trousers became acceptable casual wear for gardening, the beach, and other leisure pursuits.

In the 1960s, André Courrèges introduced long trousers for women as a fashion item, leading to the era of the pantsuit and designer jeans and the gradual eroding of the prohibitions against girls and women wearing trousers in schools, the workplace, and fine restaurants

Answer 4

Women began to wear trousers in the second world war. Women were working in factories due to the shortage of manpower. they began wearing trousers at work for safety reasonsm and the fashion caught on from that.

Answer 5

sure they wore them as well from Day one maybe they wore the trousers first men needed the kilts or looser clothing for fighting and hunting

Answer 6

women have always worn the trousers & we still do

Answer 7

http://www.bookrags.com/history/pants-for-women-sjpc-04/

Answer 8

well im nly in 1st yr but they wernt exactly pants under their dress but the 1st time i read but them was the celts poor women wore them

Answer 9

alway tho it is a shame as im a leg guy they should be made to wear hot pants or skirts

Answer 10

when they were told to by men.now get in that kitchen woman. only joking cudnt help it.