If our ancestors learned to use animal skin to keep their body warm, why did it eventually turn into a construct of covering your bodies to hide your naked body?

Question

In other words, why did humans start feeling shame?

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Answer 1

Remember, modern humans started in warm tropical climates, not anywhere you need insulation from the cold. Clothing started as decoration. It stood for social connections and wealth many generations before humans migrated to anywhere they needed to wear protection from the cold all day.

As such, being naked means that you’ve been stripped of your wealth and social connections; so you’re vulnerable and unprotected *from other humans.* When one tribe or gang of humans defeats another in war, the losers are stripped of their finery and enslaved. Public nudity becomes shameful not because your naughty bits are on display, but because it signifies that you are defeated and have nothing.