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Earliest Known Trousers The head of the ancient Babylonian was carefully protected from the sun by various wrappings It was sufficient suf sat for the rest of the body to wear weara a thin woolen or linen garment bound at the hips with a girdle or shawl shaw over which sometimes another garment garI gar gat I ment meat was picturesquely draped In Babylonia and Assyria also head and I foot coverings were subject to fashion but the long fitting close-fitting garment fortunately fortunately for for- fortunately never went out of style Trousers Trousers the the invention of the Medes are Medes-are are first found on the Parthian stele of about the first century century cen tury B. B C. C which was excavated In Assyria