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People also decorate their bodies with makeup or cosmetics, perfume,
and other ornamentation; they also cut, dye, and arrange the hair of
their heads, faces, and bodies (see hairstyle), and sometimes also mark
their skin (by tattoos, scarifications, and piercings). All these decorations
contribute to the overall effect and message of clothing, but do not
constitute clothing per se.
Articles carried rather than worn (such as purses, canes, and umbrellas)
are normally counted as fashion accessories rather than as clothing.
Jewelry and eyeglasses are usually counted as accessories as well, even
though in common speech these items are described as being worn
rather than carried.
Clothing as functional technology
The practical function of clothing is to protect the human body from
dangers in the environment: weather (strong sunlight, extreme heat or
cold, and precipitation, for example), insects, noxious chemicals,
weapons, and contact with abrasive substances, and other hazards.
Clothing can protect against many things that might injure the naked
human body. In some cases clothing protects the environment from the
clothing wearer as well (example: medical scrubs).
Humans have shown extreme inventiveness in devising clothing solutions
to practical problems and the distinction between clothing and other
protective equipment is not always clear-cut. See, among others: air
conditioned clothing, armor, diving suit, swimsuit, bee-keeper's costume,
motorcycle leathers, high-visibility clothing, and protective clothing.
Clothing as social message
Social messages sent by clothing, accessories, and decorations can
involve social status, occupation, ethnic and religious affiliation, marital
status and sexual availability, etc. Humans must know the code in order
to recognize the message transmitted. If different groups read the same
item of clothing or decoration with different meanings, the wearer may
provoke unanticipated and/or unwanted responses.
The manner of consciously constructing, assembling, and wearing
clothing to convey a social message in any culture is governed by current
fashion. The rate at which fashion changes varies; easily modified styles
in wearing or accessorizing clothes can change in months, even days, in
small groups or in media-influenced modern societies. More extensive
changes, that may require more time, money, or effort to effect, may
span generations. When fashion changes, messages from clothing
change.
Social status
In many societies, people of high rank reserve special items of clothing or
decoration for themselves as symbols of their social status. In ancient
times, only Roman senators could wear garments dyed with Tyrian
purple; only high-ranking Hawaiian chiefs could wear feather cloaks and
palaoa or carved whale teeth. In Imperial China and many parts of
Southeast Asia, only the [monarch] could wear yellow. In many cases
throughout history, there have been elaborate systems of sumptuary
laws regulating who could wear what. In other societies (including most
modern societies), no laws prohibit lower-status people from wearing
high-status garments, but the high cost of status garments effectively
limits purchase and display. In current Western society, only the rich can
afford so-called haute couture. Additionally, the threat of social ostracism
may limit garment choice.
Occupation
Military, police, and firefighters usually wear uniforms, as do workers in
many industries. School children often wear school uniforms, while college
and university students sometimes wear academic dress. Members of
religious orders may wear uniforms known as habits. Sometimes a single
item of clothing or a single accessory can declare one's occupation or
rank within a profession — for example, the high toque or chef's hat
worn by a chief cook.
Ethnic, political, and religious affiliation
In many regions of the world, national costumes and styles in clothing
and ornament declare membership in a certain village, caste, religion, etc.
A Scotsman declares his clan with his tartan. A Sikh displays his religious
affiliation by wearing a turban and other traditional clothing. A French
peasant woman would have identified her village with her cap or coif.
Clothes can also proclaim dissent from cultural norms and mainstream
beliefs, as well as personal independence. In 19th-century Europe, artists
and writers lived la vie de Bohème and dressed to shock: George Sand in
men's clothing, female emancipationists in bloomers, male artists in velvet
waistcoats and gaudy neckcloths. Bohemians, beatniks, hippies, Goths,
punks and Skinheads have continued the (countercultural) tradition in the
20th-century West. Now that haute couture plagiarizes street fashion
within a year or so, street fashion may have lost some of its power to
shock, but it still motivates millions trying to look hip and cool.
Marital status
Some Hindu women, once married, wear sindoor, a red powder, in the
parting of their hair; if widowed, they abandon sindoor and jewelry and
wear simple white clothing. Men and women of the Western world may
wear wedding rings to indicate their marital status. See also Visual
markers of marital status.
Sexual interest
Some clothing indicates the modesty of the wearer. For example, many
Muslim women wear head or body covering (see hijab, burqa or bourqa,
chador and abaya) that proclaims their status as respectable women.
Other clothing may indicate flirtatious intent. For example, a Western
woman might wear extreme stiletto heels, close-fitting and body-
revealing black or red clothing, exaggerated make-up, flashy jewelry, and
perfume to show sexual interest or invite male attention. A man might
wear a tightly-cut shirt and unbutton the top buttons to invite female
attention.
What constitutes modesty and allure varies radically from culture to
culture, within different contexts in the same culture, and over time as
different fashions rise and fall. Moreover, a person may choose to display
a mixed message. For example, a Saudi Arabian woman may wear an
abaya to proclaim her respectability, but choose an abaya of luxurious
material cut close to the body and then accessorize with high heels and a
fashionable purse. All the details proclaim sexual desirability, despite the
ostensible message of respectability.
Sexual fetishes involving clothing
Because clothing and adornment are closely related to ideas of human
sexuality and sexual display, humans may develop clothing fetishes. They
may be strongly aroused by the sight of another person wearing clothing
and accessories they consider arousing or sexually exciting. Sometimes
the object of clothing becomes the object of arousal itself. Fetishes have
been documented in every culture and have been recorded throughout
history. Common fetishes involving clothing include arousal by or
involving shoes, leather, uniforms, or lingerie.
Fetishes vary as much as fashion. Sometimes the clothing itself becomes
the object of fetish, such as in case with used girl panties in Japan. Some
clothing manufacturers make fetish clothing, designed to arouse buyers
with specialized tastes.
Religious habits and special religious clothing
Religious clothing might be considered a special case of occupational
clothing. Sometimes it is worn only during the performance of religious
ceremonies. However, it may also be worn everyday as a marker for
special religious status.
Clothing materials
Common clothing materials include:
• Cloth, typically made of cotton, flax, wool, hemp, ramie, silk,
lyocell, or synthetic fibers
• Down for down-filled parkas
• Fur
• Leather
Less-common clothing materials include:
• Jute
• Rubber
• PVC
• Recycled PET
• Tyvek
• Rayon
• Hemp
• Recycled or Recovered Cotton
• Soy
• Bamboo
• Other Natural Fibers
Reinforcing materials such as wood, bone, plastic and metal may be used
in fasteners or to stiffen garments.
Clothing maintenance
Clothing, once manufactured, suffers assault both from within and from
without. The human body inside sheds skin cells and body oils, and
exudes sweat, urine, and feces. From the outside, sun damage, damp,
abrasion, dirt, and other indignities afflict the garment. Fleas and lice take
up residence in clothing seams. Well-worn clothing, if not cleaned and
refurbished, will smell, itch, look scruffy, and lose functionality (as when
buttons fall off and zippers fail).
In some cases, people simply wear an item of clothing until it falls apart.
Cleaning leather presents difficulties; one cannot wash bark cloth (tapa)
without dissolving it. Owners may patch tears and rips, and brush off
surface dirt, but old leather and bark clothing will always look old.
But most clothing consists of cloth, and most cloth can be laundered and
mended (patching, darning, but compare felt).
Humans have developed many specialized methods for laundering,
ranging from the earliest "pound clothes against rocks in running stream"
to the latest in electronic washing machines and dry cleaning (dissolving
dirt in solvents other than water).
In past times, mending was an art. A meticulous tailor or seamstress
could mend rips with thread raveled from hems and seam edges so
skillfully that the darn was practically invisible. When the raw material —
cloth — was worth more than labor, it made sense to expend labor in
saving it. Today clothing is considered a consumable item. Mass-
manufactured clothing is less expensive than the time it would take to
repair it. Many people prefer to buy a new piece of clothing rather than to
spend their time mending old clothes. But the thrifty still replace zippers
and buttons and sew up ripped hems.
The life cycle of clothing
Used, no-longer-wearable clothing was once desirable raw material for
quilts, rag rugs, bandages, and many other household uses. It could also
be recycled into paper. Now it is usually thrown away. Used but still
wearable clothing can be sold at consignment shops, flea markets, online
auction, or just donated to charity. Charities usually skim the best of the
clothing to sell in their own thrift stores and sell the rest to merchants,
who bale it up and ship it to poor Third World countries, where vendors
bid for the bales and then make what profit they can selling used clothing.
Early 21st-century clothing styles
Western fashion has to a certain extent become international fashion, as
Western media and styles penetrate all parts of the world. Very few parts
of the world remain where people do not wear items of cheap, mass-
produced Western clothing. Even people in poor countries can afford
used clothing from richer Western countries.
However, people may wear ethnic or national dress on special occasions
or if carrying out certain roles or occupations. For example, most
Japanese women have adopted Western-style dress for daily wear, but
will still wear silk kimonos on special occasions. Items of Western dress
may also appear worn or accessorized in distinctive, non-Western ways.
A Tongan man may combine a used T-shirt with a Tongan wrapped skirt,
or tupenu.
Western fashion, too, does not function monolithically. It comes in many
varieties, from expensive haute couture to thrift store grunge.
Mainstream Western or international styles
• International standard business attire — global in influence, just as
business functions globally.
• Haute couture
• Casual wear
Regional styles
• Clothing of Europe and Russia
• Clothing in the Americas
o South American fashion
o United States mainstream fashion
For example: "Catalogue" fashion, regional styles such as preppy or
Western wear.
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o United States alternative fashion
These fashions are often associated with fans of various musical styles.
• Clothing in Asia
• Clothing in Africa
• Clothing in Oceania
Origin and history of clothing
According to archaeologists and anthropologists, the earliest clothing
probably consisted of fur, leather, leaves or grass, draped, wrapped or
tied about the body for protection from the elements. Knowledge of such
clothing remains inferential, since clothing materials deteriorate quickly
compared to stone, bone, shell and metal artifacts. Archeologists have
identified very early sewing needles of bone and ivory from about 30,000
BC, found near Kostenki, Russia, in 1988.
Ralf Kittler, Manfred Kayser and Mark Stoneking, anthropologists at the
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, have conducted a
genetic analysis of human body lice that indicates that they originated
about 107,000 years ago. Since most humans have very sparse body
hair, body lice require clothing to survive, so this suggests a surprisingly
recent date for the invention of clothing. Its invention may have coincided
with the spread of modern Homo sapiens from the warm climate of Africa,
thought to have begun between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago.
However, a second group of researchers used similar genetic methods to
estimate that body lice originated about 540,000 years ago (Reed et al.
2004. PLoS Biology 2(11): e340). For now, the date of the origin of
clothing remains unresolved.
Some human cultures, such as the various peoples of the Arctic Circle,
until recently made their clothing entirely of furs and skins, cutting
clothing to fit and decorating lavishly.
Other cultures have supplemented or replaced leather and skins with
cloth: woven, knitted, or twined from various animal and vegetable fibres.
Although modern consumers take clothing for granted, making the
fabrics that go into clothing is not easy. One sign of this is that the
textile industry was the first to be mechanized during the Industrial
Revolution; before the invention of the powered loom, textile production
was a tedious and labor-intensive process. Therefore, methods were
developed for making most efficient use of textiles.
One approach simply involves draping the cloth. Many peoples wore, and
still wear, garments consisting of rectangles of cloth wrapped to fit — for
example, the Scottish kilt or the Javanese sarong. Pins or belts hold the
garments in place. The precious cloth remains uncut, and people of
various sizes can wear the garment.
Another approach involves cutting and sewing the cloth, but using every
bit of the cloth rectangle in constructing the clothing. The tailor may cut
triangular pieces from one corner of the cloth, and then add them
elsewhere as gussets. Traditional European patterns for men's shirts and
women's chemises take this approach.
Modern European fashion treats cloth much more prodigally, typically
cutting in such a way as to leave various odd-shaped cloth remnants.
Industrial sewing operations sell these as waste; home sewers may turn
them into quilts.
In the thousands of years that humans have spent constructing clothing,
they have created an astonishing array of styles, many of which we can
reconstruct from surviving garments, photos, paintings, mosaics, etc., as
well as from written descriptions. Costume history serves as a source of
inspiration to current fashion designers, as well as a topic of professional
interest to costumers constructing for plays, films, television, and
historical reenactment.
Future trends
As technologies change, so will clothing. Many people, including
futurologists have extrapolated current trends and made the following
predictions:
• Man-made fibers such as nylon, polyester, Lycra, and Gore-Tex
already account for much of the clothing market. Many more types of
fibers will certainly be developed, possibly using nanotechnology. For
example, military uniforms may stiffen when hit by bullets, filter out
poisonous chemicals, and treat wounds.
• "Smart" clothing will incorporate electronics. Clothing may
incorporate wearable computers, flexible wearable displays (possibly
leading to fully animated clothing and some forms of invisibility cloaks),
medical sensors, etc.
• Present-day ready-to-wear technologies will presumably give way
to computer-aided custom manufacturing. Low power laser beams will
measure the customer; computers will draw up a custom pattern and
execute it in the customer's choice of cloth as well as choice of desirable
fit.
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