WI: Pants never adopted by Women widely

What if for some reason, Pants were never adopted widespread by Women in the western world but remained in Skirts and Dresses most of the time
 
Well, the phrase "getting into her pants", meaning "seduce", would probably not have entered the common parlance, for one.
 
Pants are more practical than skirts, so women will lean towards them more and more. Unless you get rid of feminism of course.

Edit: You could have a more formal culture, so women will go around in skirts in public but men are still all about the suit and the hat like they were in the early 20th Century.
 
Roman Paganism stays strong and pants remain relegated to the domain of Germanic barbarians too unwashed and uncivilized to wear proud Roman skirts. :D
 
Im persionally in favor of returning to earlier styles,i would love to walk around in a suite,top hat and with a cane without attracting weird looks.

And with all the women being in skirts it would make other things more practical.....
 
Why toilet duties of course,seeing the poor things take forever to get it over with because of to tight fashion is just so sad.

What else could i possibly be refering to? :rolleyes:
 

CalBear

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Im persionally in favor of returning to earlier styles,i would love to walk around in a suite,top hat and with a cane without attracting weird looks.

And with all the women being in skirts it would make other things more practical.....

You have been dancing on the edge ever since you signed up.

Just crossed the line.

Kicked for a week.

When you come back you best cut this junior high school wise-guy routine out.
 

Raunchel

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If that would happen my life would be far more difficult, skirts are quite annoying when you want to do serious things.

And on how to do it, I can't really imagine it, not without something like a complete Nazi victory where any semblence of women's rights is abolished.
 
If men adopt skirts of some type, women wearing pants wouldn't be associated with gender equality. Of course, that's it's own challenge entirely.
 

Raunchel

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If men adopt skirts of some type, women wearing pants wouldn't be associated with gender equality. Of course, that's it's own challenge entirely.

And even then, there is the issue of practicality in the modern workplace. I don't see a way to really prevent that.
 
I don't think it is really that hard. Wearing a tie is impractical, as is wearing really tight pants. I honestly think the reason pants took over has nothing to do with gender equality and more to do with it being less difficult to match colors with clothing. My wife spends forever matching stuff. When she wears jeans, she takes forever divided by 2.

So, I think all that's needed are PODs that make pants really undesirable from a fashion standpoint. Perhaps a longer world war 2 and women did even more work in factories, so pants get this image among women of conveying that the wearer does physical labor?
 
And even then, there is the issue of practicality in the modern workplace. I don't see a way to really prevent that.

Pants could become a workplace only thing, with people wearing only skirts in their free time or if they have jobs where pants aren't really necessary, but that's not quite what the OP asked for.
 

jahenders

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That really depends on the job. Most aspects of many jobs can be done about as well in a skirt as in pants (I speak from observation, not personal experience). For example, a woman who works in an office, types on the computer, and such can do all that as well in a skirt as in pants. Obviously a woman who works on cars or a living would have a much harder time.

Anyway, you could theoretically have a situation where women kept wearing skirts except in jobs/situations where they were totally impractical. To some degree this is what happened over time until it's gotten to more of a "whatever clothes you prefer" situation -- you'd just have to significantly slow the timeline.

And even then, there is the issue of practicality in the modern workplace. I don't see a way to really prevent that.
 
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