About 8.7 million species in our planet and only humans have had the initiative to cover their naked bodies. There is evidence that humans started wearing clothing about 170 millennia ago. Early humans used animal skins and vegetation to cover their bodies mostly from changing temperatures from when they started hunting and migrating, or even settling down villages in cold places. These clothes were very simplistic and very little about how they looked, but mostly about their function; which was keeping them from freezing. Later on clothing also started symbolizing marital statuses, class, religious power, war honors, and religious activities. Primitive clothes varied from just some skin covering certain parts of the body, to big furry “jackets”, and feathers that served some type of status recognition purpose. These were the first types of clothing found and noted in history. Note, reader, that this whole time I have referred to this skins covering bodies as clothes, because it was just clothes.

 

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[Photo: Grand Canyon_Native American Heritage Day_0298 by Grand Canyon National Park ]