Pants allowed people to stay longer atop man's favorite hardworking beast, and hence are some oldest garments known to man. Smithsonian Magazine placed the oldest found pair of pants as 3,000 years old. These were worn by a man found inside a tomb in China. Scientists believe he was a warrior, found with an array of horse riding tools such as a whip, bridle, and a bit, along with a few weapons. This particular pair of pants predates the previously thought oldest pair by about 400 years. The others were worn by the Cherchen Man, a body discovered in another tomb in the same region. ScienceNews described the pants as straight fitted, with a wide crotch and made of wool. These weren't made-to-fit pants; they had strings on the sides to tighten to fit. Since the pair of pants were found among horse riding implements, scientists said it bolsters their belief that pants were invented strictly to make riding a horse more bearable. Archaeologists think the dry air surrounding the area where the tomb was found may have contributed to the garment's preservation.
Before pants wearing, researchers have found that some people also wore loincloths with leggings, as evidenced by the garments preserved with the Ötzi the Iceman, the 5,300-year old body of a man found in Europe.
But since humans don't ride horses as often anymore, you say, why is it that people still wear pants?
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