how come its called a pair of pants?

Answer 1

two legs???

really, i dunno.

Answer 2

Because each leg is called a pant. Two legs = pair of pants.

Answer 3

A pair means two of something. So obviously theres two pant legs. So its a pair.

Answer 4

Because there are 2 pant legs to every pair of pants. Each pair of pants are joined together.
Therefore making them a pair eventhough you consider it of just having 1 item... it's like two.
If your hands were connected the way your legs are, then you'd call gloves a pair of gloves if gloves came sewed together too.
Hope this helped.

Answer 5

They're really called trousers.
trou·sers /ˈtraʊzərz/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[trou-zerz] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun (used with a plural verb)
1.Sometimes, trouser. Also called pants. a usually loose-fitting outer garment for the lower part of the body, having individual leg portions that reach typically to the ankle but sometimes to any of various other points from the upper leg down. Compare Bermuda shorts, breeches, knickers (def. 1), short (def. 29a), slacks.
2.pantalets.
[Origin: 1585–95; trouse (var. of trews) + (draw)ers]
Much like you wear a pair of socks(2 socks), a pair of pants has 2 holes for your legs(obviously)

Answer 6

Because their is two sides on a pair of pants.

Answer 7

Until the late 17th century, leg garments were made in two parts, one sleeve of fabric for each leg, so calling them a "pair" made perfect sense. The two pieces of woven cloth (or animal hides) were tied to a belt to hold them up.

Answer 8

It can be traced back to Pantaleon, the patron saint of Venice. He became so closely associated with the inhabitants of that city that the Venetians were popularly known as Pantaloni. In the mid-17th century the French came to identify him with one particular style of trousers, a style which became known as pantaloons in English. Pantaloons was later applied to another style that came into fashion in the late 18th century, tight-fitting garments that had begun to replace knee breeches. After that pantaloons was used to refer to trousers in general. The abbreviation of pantaloons to pants met with some resistance at first; it was considered vulgar and, as Oliver Wendell Holmes put it, "a word not made for gentlemen, but 'gents.'" First found in the writings of Edgar Allan Poe in 1840, pants has replaced the "gentleman's word" in English and has lost all obvious connection to Saint Pantaleon.

haha you asked

Answer 9

Pair usually means two of. A pair of sunglasses...Funny thing is though, a shirt is a shirt...

Answer 10

I really don't know. Because a shirt has two arms, but we don't call it a pair of shirts unless it's two of them.

English is a crazy language. :)

Answer 11

because a "pant" is for one leg. you have two, (i'm assuming) so they call it a "pair"