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.
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