Why do many uniforms have excess space in the upper thigh areas,

Those are Jodhpurs, a type of riding pants originating in India, adopted by the British and then by many other militaries around the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodhpurs

>>34477196
>Why do many uniforms have excess space in the upper thigh areas, are they made for really deep pockets?

Kek, dumbshit

CHILD
BEARING
HIPS

>>34477256
>in an era before the invention of stretch fabrics, also allowed free movement of the hip and thigh while riding
neat

>>34477196
>excess space
Nah. They were just THICC

>>34479138
"Never skip leg day"
-US Army operating manual, 1913, page 28.

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>>34477196
>Why do many uniforms have excess space in the upper thigh areas

More like "why DID many uniforms."

As >>34477256 and >>34478876 said, theyre riding pants.

Horses were an important part of any capable military dating all they way back into the days of Romans, Greeks, Phoneticians, Carthaginians, Turks, Persians etc.

Once you got into the Industrial Revolution with mass produced clothing (among other tech), the phase-out of horses in favor of motor vehicles was a long and slow process.

As such even Patton wore riding pants and boots (he started as a cavalry guy), despite the fact he rode in a Jeep throughout WWII.

You can do ninja kicks that would otherwise not be possible in ordinary pants unless they are made out of stretchy fabric.

>>34481135
>Military pants
>Owner equipped with the best materiel known to man, dispensing instant death and destruction on demand
>ninja kicks

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>>34479155

>>34477196
Learn to google...

You know for 90+% of military history cavalry was a thing

>>34477196

They were made for big action pocket pool.