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

Clothing doesn’t just keep you warm, it also keeps you from being incinerated by the sun and sand in the deserts and eaten alive by bloodsucking insects in the swamps.

Different cultures have different tolerance for levels of public nudity but nearly all of them that have the means to wear clothing do so.

In the Western Christian tradition, remember this faith originated in the deserts of the Middle East, where anyone walking around nude would get fried to a crisp and sand-blasted. Head-to-toe white linens in Saudi Arabia isn’t merely a fashion choice, it’s highly practical.