Peter Sallis and he later starred alongside Brenda Blethyn, Kevin Whately and Anna Massey in the one-off ITV1 drama "Belonging" (2004). While a student in 1983, animator Nick Park wrote to Sallis asking him if he would voice his character Wallace, an eccentric inventor. Sallis agreed to do so for a donation of £50 to his favourite charity. The work was eventually released in 1989 and Aardman Animations' "Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out" went on to win a BAFTA award. Sallis reprised his role in the Oscar- and BAFTA Award-winning films "The Wrong Trousers" in 1993 and "A Close Shave"
Trousers both sexes among these early users. The ancient Greeks used the term "ἀναξυρίδες" ("anaxyrides") for the trousers worn by Eastern nations and "σαράβαρα" ("sarabara") for the loose trousers worn by the Scythians. However, they did not wear trousers since they thought them ridiculous, using the word "θύλακοι" ("thulakoi"), pl. of "θύλακος" ("thulakos"), "sack", as a slang term for the loose trousers of Persians and other Middle Easterners. Republican Rome viewed the draped clothing of Greek and Minoan (Cretan) culture as an emblem of civilisation and disdained trousers as the mark of barbarians. As the Empire expanded beyond the Mediterranean basin,