"The first purpose of clothes . . . was not warmth or decency, but ornament . . . Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries".
-- Thomas Carlyle, Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher (1795 - 1881)
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