What if clothing had never been invented and everyone was always naked?

I don't think humans without clothes can be civilised. Clothes display identity and social status. They say a lot about who we are. Like it or hate it, clothes are a part of identity. Perhaps the world would be more egalitarian. Or perhaps we would just be a bunch of primitive, naked savages who communicate by grunts and spend our time fighting each other and running away from larger predators such as lions.
 
I mean I think in India at least it’s not hard to consider a world where everyone is naked considering that for both genders up until and a little bit beyond the Mauryan era, the most common clothing was just a loincloth, and loincloth instead of “proper cloths” lasted in the urban poor as well as rural up until the industrial era. There was even an 18th century tax on lower caste women for wearing a bra. So I don’t think it’s asb to have a world where the majority of people are always completely naked and only the upper class wear certain items of clothing as status symbols.
 

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@Madhav Deval I thought the bra wasn't invented until the early 20th Century.
Was it not in Somalia that Islamic fundamentalists there bared women from wearing them because they were tricking the men into thinking they had certain attributes they did not. So they were stopping women out in public at random and making them jump up and down to see if they truly were “bra free” or selling false goods.
 
probably white skin does not evolve

Probably not when there is not evolutionary pressure for that. Naked Humans can't ever settle Northern Europe. They are lucky if they can settle some parts of Mediterranean region.

And these humans have probably more hair.
 

Lusitania

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Probably not when there is not evolutionary pressure for that. Naked Humans can't ever settle Northern Europe. They are lucky if they can settle some parts of Mediterranean region.

And these humans have probably more hair.
Actually if for what ever reason humans do not evolve to wear clothing then evolution will take over and provide affmdiitionsl protections. Thicker skin, more hair. Humans could be more similar to apes instead of homosapiens.
 
Interesting thought. If there's no clothes, it's unlikely there is armour. If there is no armour, it's unlikely that there will be a need to make better weapons. Without the need to make better weapons, would the Bronze or Iron Age even happen? Would it be delayed?
 

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Interesting thought. If there's no clothes, it's unlikely there is armour. If there is no armour, it's unlikely that there will be a need to make better weapons. Without the need to make better weapons, would the Bronze or Iron Age even happen? Would it be delayed?
the lack of clothing would I think only happen due to lower intelligent humans and therefore the would never progress from stone age.
 
Interesting thought. If there's no clothes, it's unlikely there is armour. If there is no armour, it's unlikely that there will be a need to make better weapons. Without the need to make better weapons, would the Bronze or Iron Age even happen? Would it be delayed?
Iron/Bronze tools would still be pretty handy for all sorts of things that aren't slicing and dicing people. Metal axes and knives were an incredibly popular trade good with stone age peoples for a reason. The spread of metal tools and weapons would probably be slower, but it would still happen, sooner or later.
 
Nobody would be living outside the tropics.

Karl Lagerfeld & Tom Ford & Coco Chanel would be unknown.:cool::cool:

The Oscars red carpet ceremony would be a lot shorter (but very, very much more interesting:cool::cool: ) :)openedeyewink: )

Women would never complain about somebody showing up in the same outfit. And none would ever ask, "Does this make my butt look big?":openedeyewink:

Yeah, I really have no damn clue about a serious impact on this one. It's just so improbable. It probably means human cultural evolution (tool use & language) is severely buggered to begin with, or we'd have invented clothing.
 

Vuu

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Bruh have mercy, us Europeans are hairy enough as it is.

I shudder at the thought of what the Inuit and arctic peoples would look like...
 

Lusitania

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Bruh have mercy, us Europeans are hairy enough as it is.

I shudder at the thought of what the Inuit and arctic peoples would look like...
What Inuit what attic people. As indicated people would only live where no garments are required. Even desert areas be difficult if not impossible.
 

Vuu

Banned
What Inuit what attic people. As indicated people would only live where no garments are required. Even desert areas be difficult if not impossible.

In like 15000 years we did get significant phenotypal diversity with minimal genetic difference. Furryness, God forbid, could in such conditions make a comeback. Already suspected to be the case with Neanderthals.
 
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