Quote Originally Posted by AeroFly View Post
Most attire worn by men and women around the world has had a scientific reason attached to it.
Not necessarily scientific, but at least a rational reason. There have been many such rational reasons for many different practices which, over the centuries, have become entrenched in dogma. The real reasons for doing those things have been forgotten, and they are done only because it's the way they've always been done. Even though there is now no rational reason for doing so.

We wear Jeans because its the most convenient fabric, though it started off as a tough cloth for the miners.
The reasons for wearing jeans are almost as numerous as the different brands, but none of them are considered to be requirements (except by those enslaved to the fashion dictates of designers). And they are certainly not FORCED upon half of the population by the other half of the population.

Several rulers from Iran and Egypt have tried to get rid of it, without much success.
That's because the clerics have made it an integral part of the religion, with disobedience resulting in death. Remove the stranglehold of religion and the problem disappears. Not as simple as it sounds, I know.