When in men's ability to be physically mobile meant life or death they wore what were basically skirts. Greek Hopolites wore "skirts". Roman soldiers wore "skirts". The scottish kilt is a "skirt". Or the hunter-gatherer equivalent - the loincloth.
"Skirts" were a very mobile and functional piece of clothing, before they became unfashionable or correlated with a certain personality meaning.
Hey man, when you have Pharos's tanks after your sorry ass you better be able to bail hard.
Also in an age of limited technology, if you have to you much prefer receiving a bullet, an arrow or some form of stabbing "clean" rather than having fabric be sucked inside the wound, which will kill you, slow and painful style.
When in men's ability to be physically mobile meant life or death they wore what were basically skirts. Greek Hopolites wore "skirts". Roman soldiers wore "skirts". The scottish kilt is a "skirt". Or the hunter-gatherer equivalent - the loincloth.
"Skirts" were a very mobile and functional piece of clothing, before they became unfashionable or correlated with a certain personality meaning.
I don't like my legs being exposed to scrapes.
Hey man, when you have Pharos's tanks after your sorry ass you better be able to bail hard.
Also in an age of limited technology, if you have to you much prefer receiving a bullet, an arrow or some form of stabbing "clean" rather than having fabric be sucked inside the wound, which will kill you, slow and painful style.