Who invented clothes and why?

Question

Give me every detail you know.

Answer 1

um it would of been the caveman to keep warm

Answer 2

Basically, clothing is a necessity to keep the body WARM and protected from the elements. Man invented clothing because he was the NAKED Ape, and freezing his butt off!

Answer 3

Clothes were invented in prehistoric times. There is no information about who it was, because it was prehistoric. Clothes were invented to protect the body from dangers: the sun, branches, cats, whatever.

Answer 4

"...they realized they were naked so they sewed fig-leaves together to make themselves loin-cloths" (Gn.3:7).
That was Adam and Eve's attempt.

"God made clothes out of skins for the man and his wife, and they put them on." (Gn.3:21).
God's better plan.

Answer 5

Because it is sexier to leave some things to the imagination than to be all nude all the time. Either that, or because men were afraid of getting their ding-a-ling cut off during fights.

Answer 6

Origin and history of clothing


According to archaeologists and anthropologists, the earliest clothing probably consisted of fur, leather, leaves or grass, draped, wrapped or tied about the body for protection from the elements. Knowledge of such clothing remains inferential, since clothing materials deteriorate quickly compared to stone, bone, shell and metal artifacts. Archeologists have identified very early sewing needles of bone and ivory from about 30,000 BC, found near Kostenki, Russia, in 1988.

Ralf Kittler, Manfred Kayser and Mark Stoneking, anthropologists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, have conducted a genetic analysis of human body lice that indicates that they originated about 107,000 years ago. Since most humans have very sparse body hair, body lice require clothing to survive, so this suggests a surprisingly recent date for the invention of clothing. Its invention may have coincided with the spread of modern Homo sapiens from the warm climate of Africa, thought to have begun between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago. However, a second group of reseachers used similar genetic methods to estimate that body lice originated about 540,000 years ago (Reed et al. 2004. PLoS Biology 2(11): e340). For now, the date of the origin of clothing remains unresolved.

Some human cultures, such as the various peoples of the Arctic Circle, until recently made their clothing entirely of furs and skins, cutting clothing to fit and decorating lavishly.

Other cultures have supplemented or replaced leather and skins with cloth: woven, knitted, or twined from various animal and vegetable fibres. See weaving, knitting, and twining.

Although modern consumers take clothing for granted, making the fabrics that go into clothing is not easy. One sign of this is that the textile industry was the first to be mechanized during the Industrial Revolution; before the invention of the powered loom, textile production was a tedious and labor-intensive process. Therefore, methods were developed for making most efficient use of textiles.

One approach simply involves draping the cloth. Many peoples wore, and still wear, garments consisting of rectangles of cloth wrapped to fit — for example, the Scottish kilt or the Javanese sarong. Pins or belts hold the garments in place. The precious cloth remains uncut, and people of various sizes can wear the garment.

Another approach involves cutting and sewing the cloth, but using every bit of the cloth rectangle in constructing the clothing. The tailor may cut triangular pieces from one corner of the cloth, and then add them elsewhere as gussets. Traditional European patterns for men's shirts and women's chemises take this approach.

Modern European fashion treats cloth much more prodigally, typically cutting in such a way as to leave various odd-shaped cloth remnants. Industrial sewing operations sell these as waste; home sewers may turn them into quilts.

In the thousands of years that humans have spent constructing clothing, they have created an astonishing array of styles, many of which we can reconstruct from surviving garments, photos, paintings, mosaics, etc., as well as from written descriptions. Costume history serves as a source of inspiration to current fashion designers, as well as a topic of professional interest to costumers constructing for plays, films, television, and historical reenactment.

See also History of Western fashion, Category:History of clothing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothes#Origin_and_history_of_clothing

Answer 7

Adam and Eve they used fig leaves.

Answer 8

The goddess of winter, so you wouldn't freeze your *ss off...