Braccae

The Bracae, also Braccae (Greek ἀναξυρίδες anaxyrides ) pants were in ancient times.

Description and Use

The Bracae were antique wool pants. They went to the carrier to below the knee and was tightened there with leather straps (of living in the north Celts were Bracae worn that went up to the ankle ). At the waist is fastened these pants with a belt.

The Bracae were worn in slight variations of both men and women.

History

Pants were the Greeks as characteristic of their northern and eastern neighboring peoples (including the Persians and Scythians ), as a passage in Herodotus shows.

In the Sarmatians these pants were also popular on Trajan's Column, a group of Sarmatian was imaged with Bracae.

At the same time, the Bracae were widespread throughout central Europe by the Celts. But to the Romans these pants came only through the conquest of Gaul, where the Bracae were worn by all classes of the Celtic population. In Rome they described the beginning as barbaric, in the border areas Bracae but were worn because of their heat from Roman legionaries very well, because they were warming than the feminalia otherwise used. In the cavalry the Bracae finally found their breakthrough, as a pair of trousers for riding was much more comfortable than a skirt.

In Britain, these pants guy was still popular in the Middle Ages, in the language of the Bracae have survived to the present time, so now remember words like the Scottish word breeks to wear shorts; and the English term for breeches riding pants to the ancient Bracae.