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Show Earliest Known Trousers. Ha Tho head of tho ancient Babylonian BJ was carefully protected from tho sun B'. by various wrappings; It was mif- ---- i , thr flclcnt for tho rest of tho body to woar a thin woolen or linen garment bound at tho hips with a KlrdTo or shawl, I over which sometimes another gar- I mcnt was picturesquely draped. In I Uabylonln, and Assyria also, head and I foot coverings we're subject to fashion, I but the long, close-fitting garmont for- N I tunntcly never went out of stylo. I Trousors tho unaesthotlcal Invention It, of tho Modes nro first found on the I" Parthian stelo of nbout tho first con- II tury, 11. C., which was oxcavatcd la II Assyria. II |