Criminalising clothes

Organising social respectability? ... there have been rules about who can wear what throughout human history. Such rules have always have much to do with social hierarchy, but also ideology and religion. Does it really matter so much what other people choose to put around their bodies? Well, yes ... because clothes are not just protection from the weather, but also are expressions of symbols and values.

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