Why do humans clothe themselves?

Not attempting to give a super duper intellectualized answer and my answer is quite cliched: mostly it's because of the basic instinctual need to protect one's sensitivity (skin) to an environment or a surrounding.

But in a world where we *now* are living in, as some of you had pointed out -- clothes have *now* evolved into a subtle (sometimes not so subtle) way of showing who/what you are or become. Fashion. A brandname that is so cleverly hidden behind one's neck doesn't tell much but it does to the wearer. After all, he or she knows what he or she is wearing! If you know how much exactly that freaking cute top has cost you, and if you know that you can in fact afford it, will it be something that 'makes' you? Great, you have just been 'labelled'.

This post has been edited by flore: Apr 13 2010, 01:13 PM