Why Do People Wear Clothes?

James Grigg
Nude Positive
Published in
7 min readJan 29

Considering the practical and cultural reasons why we dress, and why we could be naked. My answer to the question “Why do people wear clothes? Are they actually necessary?”, which I found asked on Quora!

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There are many reasons why most of us wear clothes, but only sometimes do those reasons make wearing anything truly necessary:

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James Grigg
Nude Positive

Artist, environmentalist, vegan, feminist, atheist, nudist, cyclist, chocoholic, trekkie. Interested in issues of sustainability and equality — JamesGrigg.com