Of Socks and Sandals

Archeologists working a former Roman temple complex site in modern-day London have unearthed evidence suggesting that the Ancient Romans who resided there about 2,000 years ago committed a serious fashion faux pas by pairing woolen socks with sandals.

The evidence came in the form of a bronze statue, more specifically one of its feet, which appears to be wearing a woolen stocking under a Mediterranean-type sandal.

?It?s embarrassing for them,? said senior archaeological consultant Nansi Rosenberg in an Agence France-Presse interview. ?I would think their excuse would be the cold. We know from the writings of Tacitus that the weather in Britain was terrible.?

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