Korean Peninsula

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Then they sort of climbed up the leg gradually, so they'd get longer, and men were wearing breeches when it got to about 14th, 15th century, so their trousers as it were would get shorter and shorter, and then eventually it got to a time in the 1400s where socks had turned into tights that basically revealed the arse, and your tunic or your breeches had become a jacket, and there were all these laws about who was allowed to show their bum and who wasn't, because the sock was basically the full leg covering by that point, and then they sort of descended again and got lower and lower until we have what we have today, which is the short sock and trousers, so they're just, they're up and down all the time. That sounds like the progress of the Korean War up and down the Korean Peninsula, do you remember?

from 317: No Such Thing As Panic Buying Frankincense, 2020-04-17 at 00:20:36 · read transcript ⏱ 00:20:36