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Nature has supplied every animal except man with some covering for his body such as fur, feathers, hair, or a thick hide. But man has nothing but a thin skin, and for thousands of years human beings must have 1 the world with no other covering--though the earliest men may perhaps have been hairier than modern man.
It is only when we begin to think about it a little that we 2 that clothes are worn for a great many reasons that have nothing to do with the 3 , or with our need for warmth. For instance, we wear clothes to some extent in order to 4 to make ourselves, if possible, look more 5 than we are. Even the plainest clothes worn by civilized people have their buttons, collars and so forth arranged in such a way that they form a kind of decoration, and the 6 itself is of a kind and color that we think suits us, and is cut or 7 in a way that we think looks nice--though ideas about what looks nice change very much from time to time. Besides decorating us, our clothes have to link us up with the people amongst whom we live. We feel 8 if they do not look right or if they are not 9 to those which other people of our age, sex, country andp eriod are wearing. Sometimes, even in civilized countries, people wear some article of clothing, or some jewel of charm. These are because they believe that it will bring them luck or 10 evil or illness, or because it is connected with their religious beliefs.
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