Abstract
Abstract The set of all items worn on the human body. Such issues as how clothing items (and their combinations) function as signs, how the assemblage of clothing items of a given Culture forms a signaling system, and what kinds of meaning can and cannot be conveyed through clothing are relevant for theories of communication. Clothes are worn, first of all, for temperature regulation and protection from the environment. The distribution of types of clothing in relation to different climatic zones and the variation in clothes worn with changes in weather conditions show their practical, protective function. Sun helmets, sou’westers, down filled anoraks, neoprene suits, and space suits are examples of clothing items that are primarily protective in function. However, even in identical environmental conditions, people wear different kinds of clothes. Furthermore, types of clothing vary with types of social occasions, which indicates that the wearing of clothes is also subject to sociocultural norms.
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