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Why do we wear clothes?

12 July 2024 - 24 mins
Podcast Series But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids

Have you ever been threading one leg through a pair of pants in the morning and wondered…why do we wear clothes anyway? Or wondered why pockets in clothing designed for girls are sometimes smaller than the pockets in clothing designed for boys? In this episode we tackle questions about clothes with fashion historian and writer Amber Butchart.

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