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Society's agreement to stop looking at each other naked, mostly.
means The fabric items you wear to cover your body — for warmth, modesty, or style.
from From Old English 'clað' meaning cloth, with 'clothes' originally just the plural of 'cloth' — a piece of woven material. Over time the plural drifted into its own word for the garments made from that cloth, while 'cloth' stayed behind to mean the raw material itself. So every time you get dressed, you're technically wearing a pile of pluralized fabric.
- origin
- from cloth, originally just meant covering material
- economics
- fast fashion produces 100 billion garments yearly worldwide
- pockets
- women's clothes historically got smaller, fake pockets for centuries
- status
- oldest known dyed flax fibers date back 34,000 years