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While most individuals don't think about the historical political impact of the clothes they
wear, the textile industry and textiles has in fact had a great impact on societies around the
globe, and still do today. It must be recalled that prior to the European Renaissance and
Industrial Revolution, most Earth's human population was (and still is) focused about the
equator in tropical and semi-tropical areas.
European and other temperate zone, sub-arctic, and arctic populations traditionally
necessitated hand-made garments (commonly of animal skins and pelts, wool, insect
byproducts such as silk, hand processed leaves and tree barks, and hand/loom woven plant
fibers such as linen, hemp, and cotton) for protection from the elements.
Desert home peoples also traditionally required clothes for protection from overexposure to
the harmful ultraviolet rays of sunlight. In a few of these societies loom woven fabrics and
handcraft textiles became a valued art, gaining prosperous weavers and merchant classes.
People also wore clothes to indicate their socio-economic standing, and spiritual offices.
Nevertheless, for most individuals all over the world, outside of little elite aristocracies,
affluent merchant classes, the religious establishment, and societies heavily impacted by
handcraft cloth and merchant guilds, clothing was mostly worn for practical functional
purposes, and not required when impractical, for example for swimming, or for working in hot
humid conditions.
Cloth body concealment wasn't ascribed any moral dimension as emblematic of innocence or
modesty. The nude human body was connected with poverty at purity, truthfulness and worst
and was, at some time, not directly associated with human sexuality by the majority of
Earth's peoples.
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Then, in 1750 the textile mill was devised in England. This created great wealth for the
owners of textile mills, and agricultural property barons that supplied cotton, wool, and other
raw materials to be woven into textile fabrics for clothes (as well as for rope, boat sails,
construction materials and other uses).
As garments was the important profit generating end use of the textile mill owners
merchandises, it became imperative because of their local inhabitants to be indoctrinated
with the "demand" for material body concealment at all times to maintain continual gains.
This indoctrination also solidified the positions of the aristocracy by direct transfer of wealth in
the masses via textile clothing purchases, by designating particular clothes styles as
tremendously expensive and only to be worn by aristocrats, and by designating many
different clothing fashions for each sex, age, class, and commerce, area, activity, and sect,
thus reinforcing divisions within the general public, making them more easily subdivided and
controlled.
Once the masses accepted the practice of constant cloth body concealment (regularly
indoctrinated though the church, the best proponent of new ideas accessible to the
aristocracy at that time) the abundance of the textile producers was insured for generations.
Religious organizations in Asia and textile producers had followed a similar path to
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