This episode is about the answerless question, why do we wear clothes.

The sources are linked below:

1. The Significance of Clothes: Sylvia H. Bliss,The American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Apr., 1916), pp. 217-226 (10 pages) (https://www.jstor.org/stable/1413173)
2. https://elizabethanenglandlife.com/clothing-in-elizabethan-england.html
3. https://doi.org/10.2307/1413173
4. Black's Law Dictionary (6th ed.). 1999. p. 1436.
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumptuary_law
6. https://nationalclothing.org/685-wheel-farthingale-or-french-farthingale-no-surviving-examples,-so-how-did-it-look-like.html
7. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1577/clothes-in-the-elizabethan-era/
8. https://maggiemayfashions.com/calicoball/fashionhistory/the-victorian-era-crinoline-period-1850-1869/
9. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/worlds-oldest-shoes-sandals-found-bat-cave-spain-granada-rcna118012
10. https://www.britannica.com/topic/sumptuary-law
11. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Sumtuariae_Leges.html
12. http://www.tribunesandtriumphs.org/roman-clothing/roman-sumptuary-laws.htm
13. https://refashioningrenaissance.eu/when-black-became-the-colour-of-fashion/

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