Here's an intriguing onengrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=hats%2Cpants&year_start=1500&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=50
For many hundreds of years, much more hats than pants. Only in the late 90s did pants become more.
100% pants was not achieved until 1890, when this painting was made.
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Tue 18 Jan 2011, 3:49,
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For many hundreds of years, much more hats than pants. Only in the late 90s did pants become more.
100% pants was not achieved until 1890, when this painting was made.
Even so they only briefly reached 100% of one pant in 1720that's 100 percent of one ten thousanth, %‱. Times were hard.
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Tue 18 Jan 2011, 4:09,
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AhaBut in the 1850s, pantaloons ruled the world!
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Tue 18 Jan 2011, 4:17,
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Amazing!It would seem that the 17th and 18th centuries were particularly foul, yet in the 19th century, people became intolerably constipated, and only recently have they found relief!
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Alsoit seems there was a brief period in the late 1990s when everyone who wore pants also wore hats. I have to admit, I don't remember that at all.
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