Okay I feel so stupid, I only just realized feminine people wear scarves over their heads because it’s hot where their place of origin is. I knew that about religious people, but I didnt know why women in India and parts of Africa do. Someone please help me spot other common patterns in terms of clothing. Even culture in general, like some desert cultures discouraging eating shellfish because it spoils too easily in the heat.

  • HexaSnoot [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Femme people specifically wear scarves specifically because it’s hot? Why?

    Because too much hot sunshine can suck and scarves can protect your scalp, face, neck, and shoulders.

    I wonder if you might be interested in this book Women’s work, the first 20,000 years: women, cloth, and society in early times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber… she talks about how textiles, garments etc are key human technologies and I found it a useful way to think about things.

    This all sounds very exciting. Once I find a PDF I might check it out.

    • Muinteoir_Saoirse [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      9 months ago

      If you like to read about clothing from a social perspective, I have a few recommendations (all available on libgen/anna’s archive)

      Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Dress of Women: A Critical Introduction to the Symbolism and Sociology of Clothing

      Marjorie Graber’s Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety

      Stephanie Cronin’s Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World: Gender, Modernism, and the Politics of Dress