Getting dressed
If you want to leave your home, you must participate in the ritual of covering your skin with fabrics.
My love, my love! It’s time.
It’s time to sit down and have a little conversation. Although this conversation will happen unilaterally, please, feel free to let your own opinions rise up. Let them come to the surface. You won’t be able to speak them, but don’t let that bother you for too long, next week I will talk to you about words and language. The magic and traps of words will be diligently explored.
We’ve talked about the body. Remember? The machine you can use to explore this dimension. When we talk about the body, we mean the naked body but most of the bodies you’ll see in your life are going to be covered by clothes. Clothes are defined as “items worn to cover the body.” That’s their primary function. But the history of clothes is long and complicated. Scientists and clothes connaisseurs tend to disagree when trying to point a specific date and reason to the “beginning of clothes.”
I say the beginning but the better word would be invention. As you’ll see, we humans love to invent things. And discover things. And study things. And cast questions impossible to answer. What a lovely journey!
Maybe you’re asking yourself “How can I tell what clothes are?” This is easy. It’s the thing all humans wear on top of their skin. Usually as multiple layers. The basic rules are simple and they go like this: