ABSTRACT
In all organized human societies, clothing has been used to manifest identities and constitute social relations. Human beings appear to others not naked but with some form of adornment. These adornments are not arbitrarily chosen. Sometimes they are imposed on people on the basis of social and cultural significance, in other cases they are chosen by people for the purpose of projecting a certain identity. Clothing is a flexible form of adornment that allows different meanings to be created by variations in cut, shape, length, fabric, and various other stylistic details.
