Garry gave me an assignment today. He remembers Dad saying when someone needed to calm down, "just keep your shirt on". He wondered where it originated.
This is what I found out:
Before modern manufacturing techniques, shirts, and all clothes for that matter, required a lot of labor to make. They were more expensive than they are today. Someone thinking of starting a fight might take off his shirt to prevent damage. Telling someone to "keep his shirt on" was equivalent to telling him "I don't want to fight."
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That's an interesting tidbit. It makes sense though.
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