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The Skirt of Braveheart
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010Most history haters (inconceivable, I know!) out there think of the word kilt and (after giggling about how it’s a skirt for men) are immediately reminded of the movie Braveheart and the man who made looking pasty and dirty with a toilet-bowl-blue face sexy. As with all Hollywood made historical movies, there were obvious […]
The Codpiece
Sunday, January 13th, 2008The codpiece, or in Middle English was referred to as a codpece, which literally translated from Latin to mean scrotum bag, has an interesting origination. As is common knowledge, all men in the medieval days all the way through the Tudor era wore hose. These hose were not equipped with the convenient flap that most […]