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Why Do We Wear Clothes?

But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids

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Why Do We Have to Wear Underpants?

People did not shower every day in the way that we are maybe used to doing now. So the body is not being kept as clean. The shirt has a really important function. One of the earliest examples was found in Egypt and it's been radiocarbon dated to the late fourth millennium BCE.

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