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Old men in Florida redeemed! Romans wore socks with sandals - Telegraph

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
August 27, 2010
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Submitted by Hank on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 23:00
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Britons may be famous for their lack of fashion sense but they may have inherited one of their biggest sartorial crimes, wearing socks with sandals, from Italians.

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