Why Is It Called A Pair Of Pants
Olivia Luz
But clearly this is merely an extension of the expression pair of pants.
Calling them a pair of pantaloons or pants as they were eventually known made sense when there were two components. Those were two separate garments one to cover the hips and another to cover the legs. The phrasing was retained even after pants were made into one complete garment. You put on one leg tied it around your waist then put on the.
And pants pantaloons were originally two like things. Further confusing matters is a dozen pairs of rosaries even though there are 50 some beads. They are made up of. You put them on one leg at a time because they actually came in two pieces.
This harks back to an old use of the word pair to mean a set of more than two like or equal things making a whole.
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