tunic

There's a reason Kirk first donned the green tunic...

Price for a tunic: 3 shillings. A tunic is two weeks' earnings.

And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.

“And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.

That tunic is incredible! I can't believe it's around 1700 years old.

V=MQAmZ_kR8S8 The simplest of things - a tunic or a shirt is commoditized by the entire globe. Everyone on the whole globe just wears a shirt/pants.

It took weeks to make a single tunic two centuries ago. Some people waste time doing bullshit work, but it pales in comparison to back then.

A tunic not only protects against sunburn, it is also more comfortable in the sun.

I like my cycling tunic/jersey thing because it gets really good airflow, but I've gone on long rides in just a plain old t-shirt, too.

One of them, being closely chased, and apparently without his rifle, stopped all of a sudden, turned round, held out his right hand, and put his left hand into his tunic pocket. As he did so, Feuchtinger plunged in his bayonet.

Peasants didn't need to bother with all this stuff as they could not afford trousers and would just wear a dirty tunic like a sack. Then someone invented modern trousers that are one garment and the codpiece was not needed any more.

Every surface is cement, and your only clothes are a Velcro tunic/blanket. Surveillance is continuous.

Because you consider yourself to be only one thread of those which are in the tunic. Well then it was fitting for you to take care how you should be like the rest of men, just as the thread has no design to be anything superior to the other threads.

Archimedes might have sprinted through the streets of Syracuse in his underwear – what we would today recognize as a tunic" 2 - "The Eureka! story – fact or fable – is the touchstone of creative epiphany.

Now, who is going to be the celebrity to go all Socrates on us and re-introduce the tunic. Interestingly, Julius Caeser was supposed to be some kind of a rebel for wearing his tunic "loosely belted" with fringes.

The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority."

Since you can't explain it in those exact terms to the masses without causing an outrage, you have to tell them it's for their own safety and to protect them from brown skinned tunic-wearing AK47-waving freedom-hating lunatics.

If you choose to hold constant the price of a customary work-week of semi-skilled labor, you get something quite close to dsr_'s calculation where the tunic costs as much as $1,500. But given that the goal of all economic activity, including labor, is consumption, the least bad choice would seem to be choosing some sort of indexing based on an average consumption basket - which is essentially what an "inflation calculator" does.