Why do people wear clothes?
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Because someone told Adam and Eve they were naked!\n\nBereshit - Genesis vs.\n24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.\n\n25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.\n\nthen >>>\nBereshit - Genesis\nChapter 3\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which HaShem G-d had made. And he said unto the woman: 'Yea, hath G-d said: Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'\n\n2 And the woman said unto the serpent: 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;\n\n3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, G-d hath said: Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.'\n\n4 And the serpent said unto the woman: 'Ye shall not surely die;\n\n5 for G-d doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as G-d, knowing good and evil.'\n\n6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.\n\n7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves girdles.\n\n8 And they heard the voice of HaShem G-d walking in the garden toward the cool of the day; and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of HaShem G-d amongst the trees of the garden.\n\n9 And HaShem G-d called unto the man, and said unto him: 'Where art thou?'\n\n10 And he said: 'I heard Thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.'\n\n11 And He said: 'Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?'
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Because it takes the attention off wardrobe.  It helps alleviate the problems with "I have this and you don't". It ensures equality among the students-at least as far as the clothes go.  But, don't get me wrong, when I was in school, I would have been furious if they changed us to uniforms.  I don't think I would have cared if it had been the norm the whole time.
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part of it has to do with the media.  easily influenced people rely on it to dictate to them how to dress.\n\npart of it has to do with the nature of clothing in general.  there was a time, for example, when blue jeans were for workers only.  sport jackets were worn for hunting only.  styles change and are adapted from other areas of life.  look at the people that go out in public with sweat pants or pajama bottoms.\n\npart of it is due to that fact that people aren't willing to wait to see how someone looks under their clothes.  \nwomen use it as a way to attract potential mates...but if the "wrong" person looks at their exposed cleavage, then they are offended.\n\npart of it is that people don't know what "class" is or don't want to bother. \npart of it that everyone wants to look like a model or a rock star, which goes along with the first part.
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thats true! its quite funny that they wear clothes like that! its not just that only slim people should wear tights and over weight shouldnt, but its just that tight clothes are for people who have good figures! even very thin girls shouldnt wear something overly tight or revealing! that can make them look even more skinny!
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Left over fashion trend from the 70s, when everything had wide stripes (and ties were wide and hair was big and clothing was tight).  We looked stupid then.  I don't know why teens want to look like we did.
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Maybe they save money on clothing?
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Humans aren't in any way the only species that needs clothes.\n\nFirst off humans don't need clothes except in extremes of climate. People all over the world lived for tens of thousands of years without any clothing at all. And not only in the tropics. The Aborigines of Tasmanian were totally naked year round and often lived in climates with significant snowfall. Southern Tasmania is climatically equivalent to New York. Hardly a warm place to live.\n\nPeople benefit from clothes, but as others have pointed out so dod  agreat many other species. The difference is that humans canmake clothes so we do. Most other species lack the ability. But there is no truth in the claim that humans NEED clothes except in the most extreme climates.\n\nThe next point ot recognise is that there are numerous species like termites, caddisflies and lacewings that would die within hours if exposed to even mild climates without protection. In the case of termites thatprobelm is solved by building large permanent structures. Ie the case of caddis flies and lacewings the problem is solved by constructing portable flexible protection out of debris glued together with silk. And what do we callportabale flexible protection? That's right, it's clothing.\n\nIn short the question can't be answered because it presumes two false conditions. Humans don't need clothes and numerous other species do need clothes.
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Clothes. They aren't cheap!
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because they want to look sexy. why else would they? \n(unless the photographer was hot)
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simple. society put out the image of what the perfect woman should look like. So we go through shirt after shirt, pants, skirts, until we find something we feel we look good in. well, at least other females do. I work overnight and sleep during the day so i dont car as much about hat im wearing. its just gonna get messed up anyway. we like looking for things that fit us in certain ways. the accentuate our good parts and hide what we think are our bad ones. plus somedays when people are bloated they feel they look different. its all in the mind really. i know i look good in whatever i put on. i wouldnt have bought it in the first place if i didnt.
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I think that is like a trick question because really, WHAT IS fashion?  If you consider fashion when people really started wearing clothing then it would be since Adam and Eve wore fig leaves.  But if you mean a particular type of fashion then what fashion are you talking about?
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It's like changing your clothes or your hair.  Most people do that all the time.
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We were not born with clothes nor were we designed to wear them. The basic function of all body hair is warmth.
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Nowadays the usualy wear clothes.
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the same reason white people wear weaves
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Who decides what a woman or man is supposed to dress like? Wouldn't the world be a very boring place if everyone was exactly the same? Wouldn't we all be better off to just be ourselfs and mind our own business instead of deciding to mind everyone elses business for them?
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Wear clothes of the oposite sex.