What we place upon our legs accents their thickness or taper . Trousers widen the legs, e.g., while dresses bare the turn of an ankle.
Skirts reveal, while pants conceal, vulnerable landscapes of skin.
Skirts, women . Evidence for the ancient string skirt consists of detailed carvings on Upper Paleolithic Venus figurines from Lespugue, France, estimated to be ca. Skirts, men . Japanese men wear kimonos, Samoan men wear sarongs, and bedouin men wear flowing robes. Men from Amazonia, Bali, Egypt, Fiji, Ghana, Greece, Hawaii, India, Kenya, Korea, Samoa, Scotland, and Tibet also wear skirts.