What your pants say about you

The history of underwear is a relatively short one. It begins with the Industrial Revolution which introduced cheap, colourful fabrics that provided a more plentiful choice of clothes to a greater number of people. Men, women and children in antiquity and the Middle Ages wore, aside from stockings or socks, no clothes under their clothes; with the elaboration of bourgeois fashions in the Early Modern Period, concerns for modesty, cleanliness and comfort expanded and the need was felt for an und