The Calendar Week Ahead--How To Gird Upwards Your Loins: An Illustrated Direct

A repost from Oct 2014.
Although nosotros don't excogitation a  Dress & Grooming column, this may come upward inwards handy should the markets descend into madness.

From The Art of Manliness:

If you’ve read the Bible, hence you’ve in all likelihood come upward across the phrase “gird upward your loins.” I’ve ever idea it was a funny plow of phrase. Loins….heh.

Back inwards the days of the ancient Near East, both men too women wore flowing tunics. Around the tunic, they’d article of apparel a belt or girdle. While tunics were comfortable too breezy, the hem of the tunic would oft become inwards the agency when a human being was fighting or performing difficult labor. So when ancient Hebrew men had to battle the Philistines, the men would elevator the hem of their tunic upward too tuck it into their girdle or necktie it inwards a knot to continue it off the ground. The consequence basically created a dyad of shorts that provided to a greater extent than liberty of movement....MORE

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