My guess is that this is derived in turn from stereotypical caveman outfits - furs wrapped round the scandalous bits and not much else. Barbarians basically bei

My guess is that this is derived in turn from stereotypical caveman outfits - furs wrapped round the scandalous bits and not much else. Barbarians basically being modern-day cavemen. So where did that idea of caveman dress come from? Ötzi, from ~3000 BC, was much more smartly dressed, although he did live somewhere a bit cold for just a squirrel-skin posing pouch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi#/media/File:Archeoparc_-_Museum_%C3%96tzi_Kleidung.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi#/media/File:Archeopa...