I’m always moaning about how quickly clothes disintegrate, just the other day I was bemoaning a shirt for being badly made and falling apart when my wife pointed out I’d bought it 17 years ago, so I loved the idea of things lasting 5000 years :)
I have a theory that the hat disappeared precisely because people didn’t want to telegraph thier social stranding in the way hats made so obvious for so long.
Loved this, didn’t want it to end. I’m on a beach at the moment so there’s a lot of flesh and not a lice in sight, like being a time traveller to 170,000 years ago ;)
I agree about the longevity of clothing. I wear mine to death to the point where my mum has started to buy me clothes again out of horror or embarrassment or both 😆 And that's a very good theory about hats.
Your lice-free beach sounds just perfect as I throw another log on the fire. Enjoy the sunshine Jonathan!
I'd think there's a considerable energy cost in growing your own fur covering, so that wrapping yourself in someone else's would have a big evolutionary advantage. As soon as you've got the fingers and brain to do needlework, natural selection would push towards becoming bald all over.
Hi, Alia, I’m sorry but my aging, foggy brain is unable to comprehend anything prior to 4004BC, when Adam and Eve realized they were au naturel and sewed together fig leaves to make aprons to cover their nakedness. That’s Genesis 3:7, according to the Man Bible. What’s the Man Bible, you say? It’s the King James Version, super large print, and it weighs sixteen pounds, the same as the Man Bowling Ball. Lots of Man Things are closely associated with the number sixteen, like the Wilson Jack Kramer Autograph Model racquet I coveted as a teenager, which was all wooden except for the strings and the leather grip, and clocked in at just under sixteen ounces. My wife and I did the fig leaf apron thing on our honeymoon and I must admit that with no pockets they’re not very practical. (You can stop breathing into the paper bag, my wife wore a pretty dress, hat and veil at the wedding, and I was in my Navy Dress Whites.) But on the honeymoon we did save money on wardrobe, and after a few days we got used to the tourist stares and the constantly clicking camera shutters at Niagara Falls. (We saved money on travel and accommodation too, driving a whopping twenty-one miles from Buffalo, and dining was cheap because figs were in season and deliciously ripe.) BTW, my wife says I fall a little bit in love with every girl I meet and I’m not allowed to read your column anymore. We’ll just see about that.
Oh Rafael, you crack me up with your stories. 😆 Fig leaves sounds perfect for a honeymoon. What would you need pockets for? 😅
Tell your wife not to worry, that I'm far on the other side of the world and up to my neck in kids, and pretty sure I wouldn't make it through US border control at the moment, at least without a burner phone and I don't intend to buy another phone for a few years, so your well and truely safe.
Pockets? Car keys and money, to name a couple. We did some restaurant dining, having found that a steady diet of ripe figs can be, how can I say, disastrous? And it’s all good with my wife. She likes listening to your audio and she knows that she has no competition anywhere, anytime, ever.
Naked are the Australian aborigines with the exception of a thong dong for eons of years. Some still naked in the bush country. Where do they fit into this clothing is optional scheme ?
Would you believe, perfectly. Archaeological evidence shows that Australia's First Peoples have been here for at least 60,000 years, and 50,000 of that was ice age. Possum skin cloaks and other furs still hold huge cultural significance and were key to survival in the cooler parts of the country, and Aboriginal peoples were also skilled weavers and sewers. Jewellery and ornaments (as well as body paint) were and continue to be very important.
I’m always moaning about how quickly clothes disintegrate, just the other day I was bemoaning a shirt for being badly made and falling apart when my wife pointed out I’d bought it 17 years ago, so I loved the idea of things lasting 5000 years :)
I have a theory that the hat disappeared precisely because people didn’t want to telegraph thier social stranding in the way hats made so obvious for so long.
Loved this, didn’t want it to end. I’m on a beach at the moment so there’s a lot of flesh and not a lice in sight, like being a time traveller to 170,000 years ago ;)
Thanks Alia, brilliant as always!
I agree about the longevity of clothing. I wear mine to death to the point where my mum has started to buy me clothes again out of horror or embarrassment or both 😆 And that's a very good theory about hats.
Your lice-free beach sounds just perfect as I throw another log on the fire. Enjoy the sunshine Jonathan!
I'd never considered the potential archaelogical significance of genetic diversification in lice …
I gather few would. Thankfully, the world has those who dedicated their lives to such pursuits 😆
Whales sometimes wear hats: https://theconversation.com/playful-whales-can-use-seaweed-as-a-hat-or-exfoliant-this-kelping-behaviour-is-more-common-than-we-realised-214269
Very cute. OK, perhaps not the only creatures then, haha (although, I note there's no mention of hats or clothes beyond the catchy headline 😉)
I'd think there's a considerable energy cost in growing your own fur covering, so that wrapping yourself in someone else's would have a big evolutionary advantage. As soon as you've got the fingers and brain to do needlework, natural selection would push towards becoming bald all over.
It is quite an advantage, isn't it Ronald. And better placed to adapt to temperature extremes.
Hi, Alia, I’m sorry but my aging, foggy brain is unable to comprehend anything prior to 4004BC, when Adam and Eve realized they were au naturel and sewed together fig leaves to make aprons to cover their nakedness. That’s Genesis 3:7, according to the Man Bible. What’s the Man Bible, you say? It’s the King James Version, super large print, and it weighs sixteen pounds, the same as the Man Bowling Ball. Lots of Man Things are closely associated with the number sixteen, like the Wilson Jack Kramer Autograph Model racquet I coveted as a teenager, which was all wooden except for the strings and the leather grip, and clocked in at just under sixteen ounces. My wife and I did the fig leaf apron thing on our honeymoon and I must admit that with no pockets they’re not very practical. (You can stop breathing into the paper bag, my wife wore a pretty dress, hat and veil at the wedding, and I was in my Navy Dress Whites.) But on the honeymoon we did save money on wardrobe, and after a few days we got used to the tourist stares and the constantly clicking camera shutters at Niagara Falls. (We saved money on travel and accommodation too, driving a whopping twenty-one miles from Buffalo, and dining was cheap because figs were in season and deliciously ripe.) BTW, my wife says I fall a little bit in love with every girl I meet and I’m not allowed to read your column anymore. We’ll just see about that.
Oh Rafael, you crack me up with your stories. 😆 Fig leaves sounds perfect for a honeymoon. What would you need pockets for? 😅
Tell your wife not to worry, that I'm far on the other side of the world and up to my neck in kids, and pretty sure I wouldn't make it through US border control at the moment, at least without a burner phone and I don't intend to buy another phone for a few years, so your well and truely safe.
Pockets? Car keys and money, to name a couple. We did some restaurant dining, having found that a steady diet of ripe figs can be, how can I say, disastrous? And it’s all good with my wife. She likes listening to your audio and she knows that she has no competition anywhere, anytime, ever.
That's what I like to hear 🙂
Naked are the Australian aborigines with the exception of a thong dong for eons of years. Some still naked in the bush country. Where do they fit into this clothing is optional scheme ?
Would you believe, perfectly. Archaeological evidence shows that Australia's First Peoples have been here for at least 60,000 years, and 50,000 of that was ice age. Possum skin cloaks and other furs still hold huge cultural significance and were key to survival in the cooler parts of the country, and Aboriginal peoples were also skilled weavers and sewers. Jewellery and ornaments (as well as body paint) were and continue to be very important.