For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are
found fit to endure it: face, feet, hands, legs, shoulders, head, according
as custom invites us. For if there is a part of us that is tender and that
seems as though it should fear the cold, it should be the stomach, where
digestion takes place; our fathers left it uncovered, and our ladies, soft
and delicate as they are, sometimes go half bare down to the navel.
-- Montaigne, "Apology for Raymond Sebonde"
