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- May 16, 2019
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Even soldiers have to dress for the weather.
Hell, the military invented shorts.
History of Shorts
Surprisingly, or maybe not so, shorts were introduced by way of the tunic and toga that essentially paved the way for what we, today, consider the modern shorts. Initially, it was fashion-forward European men who wore what were, at the time, called ‘knee breeches’ before they were introduced into sports apparel by Americans roughly a thousand years later.
Originally developed for use by the military in the later part of the 14th century, they were used as a way to keep heavily packed and armed soldiers cooler while serving in tropical climates. The trend almost immediately caught on, and soon many civilians were beginning to sport these so-called knee trousers as casual wear.
Of course, that was the European military, so you can't have NFAC running around in wypipo colonial garments like that.
