A Lemmy community for historic art pieces overhauled into modern memes.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/25563072
Respect to his comrade still cranking his crossbow despite an arrow clean through his thigh.
Edit: I figured this was Crécy, and sure enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cr%C3%A9cy
A chainmail booty for each side
Looks like they didn't work. Still has an ass arrow.
Don't kink shame.
Don't link shame
Oh, to be a history teacher and watch your class walk away with this image as their dominant takeaway thought instead of your carefully crafted lesson.
When your rallying cry is "WHO LIKES SHORT-SHORTS‽"
"WE LIKE SHORT SHORTS!"
Probably "yeah sorry the budget was cut this year so we're only issuing chain mail for your nutsac up, tough economy right now"
Hotchainmail
For centuries, men were the ones who wore tights. The wheel may turn again.
It makes sense anatomically. Women store fat on their hips/butts, men store fat on their stomachs. Everyone undergoes swings in weight over time. If you're wearing tights or trousers, they need to fit your butt and thighs reasonably tightly. Men have to undergo a much greater degree of weight change before their pants size changes than women do. A skirt or dress meanwhile much more easily accommodates changes in hip size. Oh, and this is before you consider changes in hip size that come with pregnancy.
It was only really with industrialization that it became practical for women of ordinary means to wear pants or trousers. When clothes are so expensive that you can only afford two or three outfits, and each outfit has to last many years? It wasn't practical for women of ordinary means to afford to wear pants. Men could buy a set of pants and wear them even through ordinary changes in body weight. Men could make it through ordinary swings in body weight with the same set of pants, while women would require many more pairs of pants to cover the same magnitude of weight swing. Skirts and dresses were simply a lot more practical to handle the changes if female hip size that come from ordinary body weight swings.
But with industrialization, clothes became a lot cheaper. It then became practical for women to actually wear pants. If you can practically afford a large number of pants, then you can simply have an assortment of pants to handle swings in hip size from changes in body weight.
The implications about Roman men (who thought that pants were barbaric) are staggering.
dammm that cake! 🤤