Nicknames for Demi: | Edit. Share what you know! Meanings and history of the name Demi: | Edit. This name first gained wide attention through the actress Demi Moore, who used it as a short form of her full name, Demetria. It is now being used as an independent name.
In Western fashion history, it's men who are the innovators, and women pick up bits and pieces of it as men abandon them. Women didn't really start wearing pants or trousers in public until the 1930s or so, revealing at least the shape of their lower bodies for the first time. Practicality really isn't high on the list of reasons why people wear the things they do.
prior to this men were wearing various form if skirts and dresses but that s another story pantaloons where we get the word pants were made popular in 1812 by george bryan beau brummell who wore his with a foot strap like modern ski pants to keep the pants tight and avoid creaseshere is a bible verse that states that men should look men and women like women some not me personally have interpreted that as a reason women should wear only dresses or skirts