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The Importance of Clothes

Clothing serves as a protective barrier against adverse weather conditions and carries significant cultural and social meanings. It helps conceal certain body parts, distinguishes social classes, and reflects personal identity and beliefs. With advancements in materials and technology, the future of clothing is evolving, including the emergence of clothing electronics.

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The Importance of Clothes

Clothing serves as a protective barrier against adverse weather conditions and carries significant cultural and social meanings. It helps conceal certain body parts, distinguishes social classes, and reflects personal identity and beliefs. With advancements in materials and technology, the future of clothing is evolving, including the emergence of clothing electronics.

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The importance of clothes.

By : Jonathon Hardcastle
The human race universally wears articles of clothing-also
known as dress, garments, or attire-on the body in order to
protect it against the adverse climate conditions. In its broadest
sense, clothing is defined as the coverings of the torso and limbs,
as well as the coverings for the hands, feet and head. Articles
carried rather than worn, such as purses, are usually counted as
accessories, while glasses or jewelry, although worn, also fit this
category.
On the other hand, the body's decoration with tattoos, make-
up and hairstyle, although contributes to the general message an
individuals want to relay in addition to his or her clothing choices,
do not constitute clothing as such.
In most cultures, clothing was introduced as a method of
protecting the human body against extreme weather conditions -
strong winds, intense heat, cold and precipitation. In particular,
the weaves of clothes prevent the circulation of air around the
skin and thus, avoid the exit of the air reheated by the skin, which
makes people feel uncomfortable and cold.
Additionally, the clear weaves of clothing avoid the
ultraviolet radiation of the sun and the burns in the skin,
protecting it, therefore, from the heat. Finally, more impermeable
weaves protect the human body from coming into contact with
the water of rain or snow. Since water is an excellent thermal
storage cell, when the cold rain drops of snow flakes fall and
touch the human skin, they immediately send through the nerve
cells a message to the human brain that the exposed area is
becoming colder than the rest of the body and causing people to
feel discomfort.But people wear clothing for functional as well as
social reasons.
Apart from the practical functions of placing a piece of garment
above the skin, wearing clothes also carries specific cultural and
social meanings. In numerous cultures, for instance, it is bad sight
to show to others parts of the human body anatomy and
particularly the genitals. Thus, clothes serve as a method to hide
from the rest of the world the particular areas of a person's body.
Religion, customs and of course, particular historically
important circumstances have shaped the way different people in
various times feel about clothing and exposure.
Moreover, clothing has been regarded as one of the best
ways to distinguish social classes, sexes, occupation, marital
status and ethnic or religious affiliation. But in order to interpret
correctly the messages a particular set of clothes may transmit to
others, one has to be familiar with the translation of the specific
code. Wearing white during a western funeral for example is
highly inappropriate, while eastern societies endorse such a color
selection for mourning people.
Today, there are many materials with which clothes are
made. A person can choose from purchasing clothes made from
natural origin materials, like silk, wool, and leather, but may also
select one for the man-made fibers extensively used in clothes
manufacturing, like nylon, polyester, Lycra and Gore-Tex. With
the recent technological developments, there is great speculation
for the direction future clothes will take; in fact the clothing
electronics industry has just started.
Ex.1 Explain the highlighted words in the text
Ex2. Write some items in each group in the table (you can use
both words from text and ones from internet)
Clothes Material Accessories Parts f Adjectives
body which
describe
clothes

Ex3. Answer the questions


1. What are some of the strangest fashions you have seen?
2. What colors do you think look good on you?
3. What colors do you think look good on your mother?
4. What did you wear yesterday?
5. What do you think of body piercing?
6. Do you have pierced ears?Would you ever pierce your tongue?
7. What do you think of people who dye their hair green?
8. What do you think of women who wear high heel shoes?
9. Do you think people feel different when they wear different clothes?
10. Have you ever made your own clothes?If so, what did you make?Do you often
make your own clothes?

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