<P> Various people in the fashion industry use the words trouser or pant instead of trousers or pants . This is nonstandard usage . The words trousers and pants are pluralia tantum, nouns that generally only appear in plural form--much like the words scissors and tongs . However, the singular form is used in some compound words, such as trouser - leg, trouser - press and trouser - bottoms . </P> <P> Jeans are trousers typically made from denim or dungaree cloth . Skin - tight leggings are commonly referred to as tights . </P> <P> There is some evidence, from figurative art, of trousers being worn in the Upper Paleolithic, as seen on the figurines found at the Siberian sites of Mal'ta and Buret' . The oldest known trousers are found at the Yanghai cemetery, extracted from mummies in Turpan, Xinjiang, western China, belonging to the Eastern Iranian people of the Tarim Basin; dated to the period between the 13th and the 10th century BC and made of wool, the trousers had straight legs and wide crotches, and were likely made for horseback riding . </P> <P> Trousers enter recorded history in the 6th century BC, on the rock carvings and artworks of Persepolis, and with the appearance of horse - riding Eurasian nomads in Greek ethnography . At this time, the Iranian People such as Scythians, Sarmatians, Sogdians and Bactrians among others, along with Armenians and Eastern and Central Asian peoples such as the Xiongnu and Hunnu, are known to have worn trousers . Trousers are believed to have been worn by both sexes among these early users . </P>

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