reasons.
Those outside of the temperate/equatorial zones would have used clothing for protection from the elements.
Those within may have used it for decoration.
If you look at the truly isolated tribes of people from separate parts of the world, clothing, if worn at all, is functional more than anything. Those in, say, South America exhibit the same sorts of behaviours as those in the Kalahari in southern Africa, as well as those in the NorthWest coast of Africa. Groups that could not possibly have any interaction.
For most of western society, I'd say it started off as functional protection, and later developed into moral issues, esp as relating to Biblical and Christian ethics. |
