Sartorial dissonance
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LOL.
Medical trivia of the day: The sartorial muscle is a muscle that runs from the anterior superior iliac spine (top of your hip) to the inner side of your knee. It is the longest muscle in the human body.
The function of the muscle is to help in flexing the hip joint while externally rotating your leg - you use your sartorial when you cross your leg while seated and rest your ankle on the contralateral knee.
This cross-legged posture is what tailors used to use while sewing.
The name sartorius comes from the Latin word sartor, meaning tailor, and it is sometimes called the tailor's muscle.[3] This name was chosen in reference to the cross-legged position in which tailors once sat. In French, a muscle name itself "couturier" comes from this specific position which is referred to as "sitting as a tailor" (in French: "s'asseoir en tailleur"). There are other hypotheses as to the origin of the name. One is that it refers to the location of the inferior portion of the muscle being the "inseam" or area of the inner thigh that tailors commonly measure when fitting trousers. Another is that the muscle closely resembles a tailor's ribbon. Additionally, antique sewing machines required continuous crossbody pedaling. This combination of lateral rotation and flexion of the hip and flexion of the knee gave tailors particularly developed sartorius muscles.
