Health care and decoration of clothing has two roles:
¢Ù care: clothing to protect the human body, to maintain the body's heat balance, in order to adapt to climate change. Clothes people wear, we should have a comfortable sense of the main factors affecting comfort is the nature of compound fiber, yarn size, fabric structure, thickness, and sewing techniques.
¢Ú decoration: Performance in the clothing of the aesthetics to meet people's spiritual beauty to enjoy. Aesthetics of the main factors affecting textile texture, color, pattern design, fabric organization, shape retention, drape, flexibility, crease-resistant, clothing styles and so on.
People in order to function and / or social reasons, to wear clothing. Clothing to protect the physical, social messages can also be passed to other people.
Function of clothing to protect the body to resist the strong sunlight, extreme heat and cold, shock, mosquitoes, toxic chemicals, weapons, and rough physical contact - in short, to resist anything that might harm without the protection of the human body things. Human beings in the design of clothing in order to solve some practical problems have already demonstrated a high degree of creativity.
Clothing, accessories and jewelry to convey message to the community were included social status, occupation, moral and religious links, marital status, as well as sexually suggestive and so on. Humanity must know that these codes in order to identify the message to pass out. If different groups of clothing or decoration for the same a different interpretation of the meaning, then the wearer may be inspired by some of his own does not have anticipated the reaction.
Social classes: In many societies, people with high status will be some special clothing or jewelry reserved for their own use. Only the Roman emperor could wear dyed purple (Tyrian purple) clothing; only the high status of Hawaiian chiefs could wear feather coat with whale tooth carvings. In many cases, some of the legal system will curb wasteful subtle management of who can wear any clothing. In some other societies, there is no legal prohibition would go to low-status, higher status persons to wear clothes, but those high-priced clothing is natural to restrict the purchase and use of others. In contemporary Western society, only the wealthy can afford couture clothes (haute couture). Fear of social exclusion may also limit garment choice.