Boot pants
The Stiefelhose is a Oberhosenbach under long boots worn, similarly to the breeches but without leather trim on the inside of the legs. It is slightly shorter than normal trousers and reaches about the middle of the lower legs.
Men wear these as part of their uniform , especially in the military or paramilitary . The breeches already existed in the 16th century , they developed from the breeches.
Officers also had the right to lead a horse in unmounted units. If they were on foot, the pair of trousers and riding boots indicated their prominent position. The trousers were also worn out of service by cavalrymen in order to protect the actual breeches. With the end of horse riding before and during World War II , boot pants were also slowly abolished. Today it is only worn in parades in most armies .
In addition, there are boot pants for motorcycle clothing , in the BDSM area or as a fashionable stylistic device for women.
In the past, riding breeches were made very tightly from the usual outer fabrics. At least in pictures, they looked very similar to today's standard riding breeches made of elastic fabric. In the meantime there were the so-called breeches , with thin legs from the knee to the ankle and a wide balloon from the knee to the waist, as riding and boot pants that were common at the time. With the trip of Prince Albert, who later became King Edward , to India, these trousers first established themselves as the more comfortable riding breeches in the English and later in the entire European nobility. Breeches later became widespread and were widely popular in civil and uniforms between 1910 and 1945. Up until then, women's trousers were still uncommon and improper, but breeches, as iodine trousers, became common women's trousers in agriculture and equestrian sports. With the advent of elastic fabrics around 1960, equestrian sports returned to the ancient cut and look, without the old complaints. Breeches still exist in the uniforms of some countries, but in Germany they disappeared with the GDR and the end of the National People's Army.
The term boot pants is now also used for riding breeches that are worn with riding boots .