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Practice Reading: Fill in the Blanks (Dropdown) ID: #5481 Dress 2
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Whenever  you  see  a  film  set  in  ancient  Greece  or  Rome  -  or  anywhere  for  that  matter  -  the  men  are  all  wearing  togas  or  kilts  or  are    in  a  cloak.  How  much  closer  to  our  own  age  do  we  have  to  come  to  see  men  wearing  trousers?  In  fact  they,  or  something  very  much  like  them,  were  worn  in  ancient  times:  the  Chinese  dressed  in  trousers  tied  at  the  waist  and  often  at  the  ankles  to  protect  them  against  the  cold,  while  Asian  nomads  wore  something  similar  for  riding.  In  Persia  too,  they  were    for  both  men  and  women.  This  was  a  form  of  dress  that  found  its    to  central  Europe  by  400  BC.  In  the  following  century,  Celtic  people  began  wearing  similar  garments,  while  the  English  wore  ankle-length  britches  until  about  the  1100s,  when  they    knee-length  britches  -  whether  as  a  matter  of  fashion  or  practicality  it's  difficult  to  say.
What  became  known  as  bell-bottoms,  which  were  fashionable  in  the  late  1960s  and  early  1970s,  and    a  comeback  in  the  21st  century,  were  worn  by  English  sailors  from  about  the  1730s,  but  trousers  only  really  became  fashionable  in  the  first  quarter  of  the  19th  century,  and  usually  only  for  informal  day  wear.

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