11 THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT TROUSERS

THEY are never alone, because they are always in pairs. They can be baggy, straight, tailored or flared, and chances are you put them on every day. In fact, you could be wearing a pair right now! They’re TROUSERS, and they are the single most popular form of leg covering in the world. But despite their popularity, how much do we actually know about these double-barrelled items of clothing? Who invented them? How much did the first pair cost? And why do men’s and women’s have different sizings? Here are… 1 THE LONGEST pair of trousers ever produced was a bespoke pair made, unsurprisingly, for the world’s tallest man – ROBERT PERSHING WADLOW in 1938. The Giant of Illinois had an inside leg of 5’4”, but his thrifty mum Ada Wadlow…

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Viz (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2024

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