FabSwingers.com mobile

Join us FREE, we're FREE to use

Web's largest swingers site since 2006.

Already registered?
Login here

Back to forum list
Back to The Lounge

Why do they call it a pair of pants but only one bra?

Jump to newest
 

By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Anyone got the answer? x

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Im clueless sorry

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *eminiman61Man
over a year ago

mansfield

Because........

When knickers,shorts,jeans etc were first made they were made in two parts like the cowboys chaps n belted together to make a pair...... Then they made em sewn together but the term a pair stuck

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Haha quality! Take 10 house points and go to the top of the class!!! Can you answer this then!?!?!

Do butterflies make butter?

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Goes back to Victorian days and those hugh crinoline bell skirts. Ladies couldn't use a toilet in them, and it was quite customary to walk onto the lawn and pee while standing - hence a pair of knickers were two separate legs with an open gap between.......

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *eminiman61Man
over a year ago

mansfield


"Haha quality! Take 10 house points and go to the top of the class!!! Can you answer this then!?!?!

Do butterflies make butter? "

Id rather have coconut or a goldfish(18ct)

I doubt theyd be able to churn or patt but theres some damn clever things happen in nature

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Why don't they call the number eleven onety one

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross


"Why don't they call the number eleven onety one "

Cos it'd be Tenty one

@We don't say TwotyTwo or ThreetyThree

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

My friend is a scouser and i dont know if that makes any diffence but she always refers to her bra as bras and she also says pants for trousers which i think is odd.

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"My friend is a scouser and i dont know if that makes any diffence but she always refers to her bra as bras and she also says pants for trousers which i think is odd. "

Must be a northwest thing we call them pants too

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire


"My friend is a scouser and i dont know if that makes any diffence but she always refers to her bra as bras and she also says pants for trousers which i think is odd.

Must be a northwest thing we call them pants too"

I only found out what a "nosh" was the other week it means something different here

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *amslam1000Man
over a year ago

willenhall


"Why don't they call the number eleven onety one

Cos it'd be Tenty one

@We don't say TwotyTwo or ThreetyThree"

we do say fourty four

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

My point exactly

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

my mum and my aunt always called them "a pair of bras" and my friend calls it "a trouser" so I suppose it depends where you're from

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

certainly trousers are paired because long ago your leg covering was called your 'trews' and you had one trew per leg. a couple of centuries later the fashion changed to tight fiting leggings called hoes. these were made from one piece of materiel. when the fashion changed to pantaloons and stockings the pants were made from 2 bits of cloth and so were similar enough to a pair of trews to get the plural.

as for bras being singular, i can only presume that despite having two tits to suport Otto only needed to make one titsling......

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 

By *am sampsonMan
over a year ago

cwmbran


"Goes back to Victorian days and those hugh crinoline bell skirts. Ladies couldn't use a toilet in them, and it was quite customary to walk onto the lawn and pee while standing - hence a pair of knickers were two separate legs with an open gap between.......

and if women were caught short at dinner a servent would bring a "potty" dor them to use at the dinner table, whereas men would go behind a screen in the corner of the room

"

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
 
 

By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Anyone got the answer? x"

Maybe its because one pant could easily be confused with a heavy sigh and a pair of bra’s might be mistaken for the opening lines of a beach boys song....

Reply privatelyReply in forumReply +quote
Post new Message to Thread
back to top