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In the time of the Gemara and before and for centuries afterwards. My question is that in the mishkan which is in the year 2448 from brias haolam the kohanim wore pants so you see that they knew about the concept. So why didn’t they wear pants?
Otherwise you’d ask why are they wearing pant and not robes.
There are probably a few reasons. The hot climate of the middle east would probably be part of it. I would think another issue would be that cloth was expensive! Robes and Tunics if done right waste very little cloth. It does take more sewing, but while hand sewing is time consuming it is nothing compared to spinning and weaving by hand.
Remember today cloth comes from huge factories using state of the art equipment, in the time of the Gemara state of the art was a drop spindle and a warp weighted loom, bot of which are very labor intensive to use.
Of course there could be a lot of other factors too.
It was not pants. It was a long, wide ribbon that was wrapped around the waste.
HaLeiVi – WIY is talking about the michnasa’im, not the avnet. Frankly, how you can confuse the two astounds me. And I should hope that no-one wrapped any of the bigdei kodesh around any waste whatsoever.
Pants are a lot more labor-intensive than robes, and are generally common more in cooler climates than warm ones, where “breezy” and loose clothing was probably preferred over tight clothing. Look at traditional clothing in different parts of the world and there is a pattern. It’s not until recent globalization that everyone started to wear the same types of clothes, regardless of locale and climate.
1. We still do. Men wear a robe (actually a cloak, such as a tallis). To make it more convenient, it now has sleeves. During the 20th century, the style for men moved towards shorter jackets, with longer jackets (frocks, kapote, etc.) only for more formal usage (among goyim, note that the Netherlands king wore a kapote when he took his oath, and most men work similar jackets for the wedding of the Prince of Wales). Long jackets lost popularity when King George V stopped wearing them in the 1920s (Jews couldn’t care less about him, so we didn’t get the message).
2. It appears that jackets, and pants, became a lot more popular in western Europe at the end of the middle ages (perhaps due to the climate suddenly got colder). Robes, without pants, are popular in many countries. Since the Americans and Western European conquered the world, their fashions become more prestigious.
Ask old Archie…
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