>I'd add that trews are much to prefer in the winter cold.
>Looking at our world, peoples living in arctic climates
>tend to wear pants of one kind or other
=2E..While in England, the first warm days of spring are marked by the sight of women going to work in skirts rather than trousers for the first time in months.
I'll add that if I'm going to be scrambling over rocks or forcing my way through scratchy undergrowth, I'd much rather be wearing sturdy trousers than be bare-legged in a kilt or skirt.
Presumably, though, trousers are more expensive to make than kilts (more complex sewin needed) so the really poor stickpickers may have to make do with kilts - or wear old, patched and frayed trousers passed on to them by their wealthier neighbours...
Stephen
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