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Clothing

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covering worn on the body

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The assumption that the present purpose of clothing is also the end that it originally served led naturally to the theory that when the loin-cord alone is worn--as a mere indication, seemingly, of the absence of clothing--this is to be regarded not as an original custom but as the remnant of an earlier dress now serving solely as an adornment. But this supposition is contradicted, in the first place, by the fact…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
States what Clothing is; names Clothing several times.
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Folds or creases may perhaps appear in them, but even then only on the lines of the original cutting out, as we see them, for example, on the statue of Scharnhorst. Our modern way of clothing is consequently, as an external cover, not sufficiently differentiated from the inner life to appear on its reverse side as the formal expression of that life; instead of this we have a false imitation of the human form…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1
States what Clothing is; names Clothing twice.
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Dress is also a matter of health to a certain extent. European ladies, for instance, have such queer notions of beauty that their dress is contrived with a view to straitening the waist and the feet, which, in its turn, leads to several diseases.
Mahatma Gandhi, A Guide to Health
Close in meaning to Clothing; the term itself is not named.
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