What type of pants is Geese wearing?

Geese Howard has some awesome pants. I noticed other characters like Moriya,Washizuka, and Kojiro have the same pants. What are these pants called? Where can I buy some? I think there awesome. Thanks for the help,later.

They're called hakama pants. <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0"> Literally 'divided skirt' in design, they were first made to both protect the inside legs of mounted fighters and to help conceal your leg movements/footwork while engaging in hand to hand combat. Morihei Ueshiba made them a required garment to wear at any Aikido school though not all places to this day abide by it (since it's somewhat backwards to conceal your foot movement while teaching a style that has a lot of subtle footwork to it). That's why in videogames you often see counter style cahracters wearing them. I think Moriya's style (especially his crescent slashs) are inspired by Aikijujitsu, which is the style that Aikido originated from, that would explain that. <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">

You can get a cheap pair off of www.ninjitsu.com. Though if you plug hakama pants into any search engine you'll get a bunch of other sites where you can order them, you can even get a pair custom taylored and sent to you but it'll cost a lot more. <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">

Geese stole them from Hammer's wardrobe LOL.

Thanks Rasa, not only was that informative on the backroundI'm thinking I might buy some <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

If you want the pants (and tops), check out this place: http://www.bujindesign.com/

James

Cool, thanx Neo Rasa and Yucky Dog.

Yes! Cool! I thought I was alone in having a thing for those pants! I'm off to rder some. I will post pics of me in them once I get them.

I'll be honest, I've always thought that they were really kick ass looking, myself. I never knew why they had them, but to conceal foot work from the opponent, I would never have thought about that.

Spike