After the revolution in France were made of human skin leggings and shoes

Great French Revolution of the XVIII century has claimed many lives. There are so many that not all the bodies were buried, most of them rot piled in a heap, in different places. To the bodies of those executed and people do not "disappeared in vain", the Committee of Public Safety gave permission for the treatment of human skin at the tannery, the more that human skin is considered to be more flexible and durable than the skin of animals. True sew leggings and boots, which were then worn by men, is only suitable for men skin, women are too thin and soft. So many French men in those days sported clothes from the skin of other French men.

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