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Anyone got a bum-shaped woolly hat?
Given the climate of Egypt, it wouldn’t be at all surprising if clothes really were an optional extra in the scorching heat of the day, although it could get pretty chilly at night and in the early morning.
You’d have to be careful — if you didn’t watch out you could either get sunburn (or should that be bumburn?) or have your bottom turned blue with the cold.
It is also thought that during certain special occasions young servants, including slave boys and girls, walked about without clothes on — not even a pair of nice stripey pyjamas or a stylish tracksuit.
However, judging by interesting finds made over
the years by archaeologists, it is clear that clothes were made for children, so even if they were naked sometimes, at other times they were dressed. Phew!
One pleated linen dress is said to be the oldest surviving item of clothing in the world at nearly 5,000 years old!
That’s something to bear in mind the next time you see a pile of old clothes in a second- hand shop. That pair of stinky socks might have once belonged to an Egyptian pharaoh! King Toe-tankHamun, perhaps?
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