One-Shot "European Values"

Panel 1.
The panel shows a king of France, Louis XIV, and a modern-time Frenchman in pantyhose.
Lois XIV: I see, French men are still walking around wearing pantyhose. Didn’t anything at all change in our country during the last three hundred years?
Panel 2.
Frenchman: Err… Well, you see, sire, we’ve decided that there’s nothing more appropriate to represent our European values in the twenty first century than pantyhose…