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Im teaching a survey class of costume and the text I got saddled with (Tortoras Survey) claims that codpieces developed their 16th c. epic sizes due to a syphillis epidemic. (Treatment involved a staining ointment, codpieces prevented the stain from showing, social stigma of illness meant universal adoption hid sufferers, codpieces deflate due to herd immunity developing.) WHAT!?! This gets a whole paragraph in a 20-page chapter covering 200 years of Italian clothing. What say you? I cry bull.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:18:43 +0000

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