Clothing

Clothing refers to any covering for the human body that is worn. The wearing of clothing is exclusively a human characteristic and is a feature of nearly all human societies. The amount and type of clothing worn depends on functional considerations (such as a need for warmth or protection from the elements) and social considerations. In some situations the minimum amount of clothing (such as covering of a person's genitals) may be socially acceptable, while in others much more clothing is expected.

Clothing can serve as protection from the elements. Clothes can also enhance safety during hazardous activities such as hiking and cooking, by providing a barrier between the skin and the environment. Further, clothes can provide a hygienic barrier, keeping toxins away from the body and limiting the transmission of germs.

Clothing performs a range of social and cultural functions, such as individual, occupational and sexual differentiation, and social status.^[1] A uniform, for example, may identify civil authority figures, such as police and military personnel, or it may identify team, group or political affiliations.

In many societies, norms about clothing reflect standards of modesty, religion, gender, and social status. Clothing may also function as a form of adornment and an expression of personal taste or style.

Clothing can and has in history been made from a very wide variety of materials. Materials have ranged from leather and furs, to woven materials, to elaborate and exotic natural and synthetic fabrics.

Not all body coverings are regarded as clothing. Articles carried rather than worn (such as purses), worn on a single part of the body and easily removed (scarves), worn purely for adornment (jewelry), or those that serve a function other than protection (eyeglasses), are normally considered accessories rather than clothing,^{[citation needed]} as are footwear and hats. However, if functional due to local and weather condition and benefits your well being, footwear can be considered clothing.^{[citation needed]}

ClothingFunctions

Clothing refers to any covering for the human body. The wearing of clothing is exclusively a human characteristic and is a feature of most human societies. The amount and type of clothing worn depends on functional considerations (such as a need for warmth or protection from the elements) and social considerations. In some situations the minimum amount of clothing (i.e. covering of a person's genitals) may be socially acceptable, while in others much more clothing is expected.

Functionality is the primary purpose of clothing. It can serve as protection from the elements. Clothes also enhance safety during hazardous activities such as hiking and cooking, by providing a barrier between the skin and the environment. Further, clothes provide a hygienic barrier, keeping toxins away from the body and limiting the transmission of germs.

Clothing performs a range of social and cultural functions, such as individual, occupational and sexual differentiation, and social status.^[1] A uniform, for example, may identify civil authority figures, such as police and military personnel, or it may identify team, group or political affiliations.

In many societies, norms about clothing reflect standards of modesty, religion, gender, and social status. Clothing may also function as a form of adornment and an expression of personal taste or style.

Clothing can and has in history been made from a very wide variety of materials. Materials have ranged from leather and furs, to woven materials, to elaborate and exotic natural and synthetic fabrics.

It can be said that there are four primary factors in clothing comfort, identifiable as the '4 Fs of Comfort' (1) fashion; (2) feel; (3) fit; and (4) function.^[2] The only purposes of clothing is to keep the body warm and comfortable. In hot climates, clothing provides protection from sunburn or wind damage, while in cold climates its thermal insulation properties are generally more important. Shelter usually reduces the functional need for clothing. For example, coats, hats, gloves, shoes, socks, and other superficial layers are normally removed when entering a warm home, particularly if one is residing or sleeping there. Similarly, clothing has seasonal and regional aspects, so that thinner materials and fewer layers of clothing are generally worn in warmer seasons and regions than in colder ones.

Clothing protects people against many things that might injure the uncovered human body. Clothes act as protection from the elements, including rain, snow and wind and other weather conditions, as well as from the sun. However, if your clothes is too sheer, thin, small, tight, etc., the protection effect is minimized. Clothes also reduce the level of risk during activity, such as work or sport. Clothing at times is worn as protection from specific environmental hazards, such as insects, noxious chemicals, weapons, and contact with abrasive substances. Conversely, clothing may protect the environment from the clothing wearer, as with doctors wearing medical scrubs.

Humans have shown extreme inventiveness in devising clothing solutions to environmental hazards. Some examples include: space suits, air conditioned clothing, armor, diving suits, swimsuits, bee-keeper gear, motorcycle leathers, high-visibility clothing, and other pieces of protective clothing. Meanwhile, the distinction between clothing and protective equipment is not always clear-cut, since clothes designed to be fashionable often have protective value and clothes designed for function often consider fashion in their design.

Not all body coverings are regarded as clothing. Articles carried rather than worn (such as purses), worn on a single part of the body and easily removed (scarves), worn purely for adornment (jewelry), or those that serve a function other than protection (eyeglasses), are normally considered accessories rather than clothing,^{[citation needed]} as are footwear and hats. However, if functional due to local and weather condition and benefits your well being, footwear can be considered clothing.

Aerobic Wear

Even if you are not a female fashion model, you want to look beautiful while toning your body for health or fitness reasons so the clothes you choose are extremely important.

You Are What You Wear? Well, At Least Get the Right Type

The type of aerobic wear that you put on when doing your daily workout is almost as essential as any other aspect of exercising. It is not a simple matter of having one type of aerobic clothing that will work for all occasions. Aerobic wear must be specifically tailored to the exercises performed.

Some Outfits Don't Match

The type of aerobic clothing that is suitable for playing a soccer match out in a muddy autumn rain is not the same as that which you might want to wear to your yoga class at all. Some people dismiss the importance of aerobic wear, seeing it as a silly matter of fashion, but this is clearly not the case. Good aerobic clothing is both fashionable and functional, and made to its specific purpose.

Clothes for Your Yoga Exercises

Yoga wear is one of the biggest things right now, as this eastern form of exercise has become the latest craze for women ( and models alike ) all over the United States in the last few years. Most aerobic wear for yoga has several features in common.

It is extremely thin and flexible, and puts comfort at a premium. It does not need to be able to resist lots of quick, vigorous movements, or to preserve body heat efficiently. On the contrary, what Yoga wear is designed to do is to be able to slowly stretch and bend with the prolonged stretches of yoga, and to disperse body heat, since Yoga studios are always adequately heated.

Expense Vs. Practicality

Although it costs more than aerobics wear, yoga wear is basically interchangeable, since both of them are designed for indoor exercise involving lots of stretching.

If You are Exercising Outside

By contrast, very different kinds of aerobic wear are worn for outdoor exercise. Usually, outdoor aerobic wear has certain basic features. If it is for any sport that is performed from spring through autumn, it generally features shorts for actual game play, although this is different in baseball, where there is so much standing around.

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Even if you are not a female fashion model, you want to look beautiful while toning your body for health or fitness reasons so the clothes you choose are extremely important.

You Are What You Wear? Well, At Least Get the Right Type

The type of aerobic wear that you put on when doing your daily workout is almost as essential as any other aspect of exercising. It is not a simple matter of having one type of aerobic clothing that will work for all occasions. Aerobic wear must be specifically tailored to the exercises performed.

Some Outfits Don't Match

The type of aerobic clothing that is suitable for playing a soccer match out in a muddy autumn rain is not the same as that which you might want to wear to your yoga class at all. Some people dismiss the importance of aerobic wear, seeing it as a silly matter of fashion, but this is clearly not the case. Good aerobic clothing is both fashionable and functional, and made to its specific purpose.

Clothes for Your Yoga Exercises

Yoga wear is one of the biggest things right now, as this eastern form of exercise has become the latest craze for women ( and models alike ) all over the United States in the last few years. Most aerobic wear for yoga has several features in common.

It is extremely thin and flexible, and puts comfort at a premium. It does not need to be able to resist lots of quick, vigorous movements, or to preserve body heat efficiently. On the contrary, what Yoga wear is designed to do is to be able to slowly stretch and bend with the prolonged stretches of yoga, and to disperse body heat, since Yoga studios are always adequately heated.

Expense Vs. Practicality

Although it costs more than aerobics wear, yoga wear is basically interchangeable, since both of them are designed for indoor exercise involving lots of stretching.

If You are Exercising Outside

By contrast, very different kinds of aerobic wear are worn for outdoor exercise. Usually, outdoor aerobic wear has certain basic features. If it is for any sport that is performed from spring through autumn, it generally features shorts for actual game play, although this is different in baseball, where there is so much standing around.

When you are playing soccer, for example, shorts and T-shirts, made out of a non-cotton, wicking material, will work quite well for aerobic wear, as you will generate enough body heat to keep yourself warm in any situation. For before the game, or for when sitting on the bench, however, the warm-up suit, with a jacket and pants, is an essential component of aerobic clothing. If your aerobic wear does not keep you warm when you need to be, you will come into the game unprepared to play.

for example, shorts and T-shirts, made out of a non-cotton, wicking material, will work quite well for aerobic wear, as you will generate enough body heat to keep yourself warm in any situation. For before the game, or for when sitting on the bench, however, the warm-up suit, with a jacket and pants, is an essential component of aerobic clothing. If your aerobic wear does not keep you warm when you need to be, you will come into the game unprepared to play.

Men's fashion

Your watch says a lot about you. Are you sporty, practical, egotistical, or cheap? A glance at your wrist can tell the trained observer exactly where you're coming from.

First the good news. Women don't notice a man's watch. At least, not the sort of women you'd really care to know.

Chicks never notice whether I'm wearing my Rolex, or my Seiko.

Women just aren't into mechanical little things like watches (as distinct from mechanical large things like cars).

The kind of woman who is looking at the watch on your wrist to take your financial measure is what's impolitely referred to as a gold-digger.

If fine watches weren't such a pleasure to wear it

Your watch says a lot about you. Are you sporty, practical, egotistical, or cheap? A glance at your wrist can tell the trained observer exactly where you're coming from.

First the good news. Women don't notice a man's watch. At least, not the sort of women you'd really care to know.

Chicks never notice whether I'm wearing my Rolex, or my Seiko.

Women just aren't into mechanical little things like watches (as distinct from mechanical large things like cars).

The kind of woman who is looking at the watch on your wrist to take your financial measure is what's impolitely referred to as a gold-digger.

If fine watches weren't such a pleasure to wear it would be worth wearing cheapo watches just to discourage this sort of gal.

You really wear a fine watch, not for how it looks, but for how it makes you feel. Think how many times you glance at your watch in the course of a day. If each glance fills you with pleasure, that's worth the watch's perhaps steep price.

If you wear an elegant watch, like a Patek Phillipe, for example, you're telling the world you're refined and have good taste. If you choose to wear a sports watch, say a Rolex submariner, you're saying that you're an active guy that's ready to plunge to the depths of the ocean on a moment's notice.

And if you wear a Dirk Pitt Doxa watch on your wrist, you're saying that you read way too many Clive Cussler novels,and are probably in dire need of a life of your own.

watches just to discourage this sort of gal.

You really wear a fine watch, not for how it looks, but for how it makes you feel. Think how many times you glance at your watch in the course of a day. If each glance fills you with pleasure, that's worth the watch's perhaps steep price.

If you wear an elegant watch, like a Patek Phillipe, for example, you're telling the world you're refined and have good taste. If you choose to wear a sports watch, say a Rolex submariner, you're saying that you're an active guy that's ready to plunge to the depths of the ocean on a moment's notice.

And if you wear a Dirk Pitt Doxa watch on your wrist, you're saying that you read way too many Clive Cussler novels,and are probably in dire need of a life of your own.

Wedding invitation

tiquette regarding the text on a formal wedding invitation varies according to country, culture and language. In Western countries, a formal invitation is typically written in formal, third-person language, saying that the hosts wish for the recipient to attend the wedding and giving its date, time, and place.

As the bride's parents are traditionally the hosts of the wedding, the text commonly begins with the names of the bride's parents as they use them in formal social contexts, e.g., "Mr. and Mrs. John Q Smith" or "Dr. Mary Jones and Mr. John Smith". The exact wording varies, but a typical phrasing runs as follows.Dr. Mary Jones and Mr. John Smithrequest the honour of yourpresenceat the wedding of their daughterMary JanetoColonel Dusty Rhodesat two o'clockothe first of Novemberat Christchurch Hall.

If the groom's parents are also hosts of the wedding, then their names may be added as well. If the parents are not the hosts of the wedding, then the host's name is substituted in the first line, or, especially if the bride and groom are themselves the hosts, it may be written in the passive voice: "The honour of your presence is requested at the wedding of..."

Formal announcements, sent after the wedding ceremony, omit the time and sometimes the place, but usually retain the same general form.

Informal invitations, appropriate to less formal weddings, are issued by word of mouth or by hand-written letter. So long as they convey the necessary practical information about the time and place, there is no set form for these invitations.

Commercial wedding invitations are typically printed using one of the following methods: engraving, lithography, thermography, letterpress printing, sometimes blind embossing, compression plate process, or offset printing. More recently, many do-it-yourself brides are printing on their home computers using a laser printer or inkjet printer. For the artistically inclined, they can be handmade or written in calligraphy.

Historically, wedding invitations were hand-written unless the length of the guest list made this impractical.^[1] When mass-production was necessary, engraving was preferred over the only other widely available then option, which was a relatively poor quality of letterpress printing. Hand-written invitations, in the hosts' own handwriting, are still considered most correct whenever feasible; these invitations follow the same formal third-person form as printed ones for formal weddings, and take the form of a personal letter for less formal weddings.^[1]

Tissues are often provided by manufacturers to place over the printed text. Originally, the purpose of the tissue was to reduce smudging or blotting, especially on invitations poorly printed or hastily mailed before the ink was fully dried, but improved printing techniques mean they are now simply decorative.^[2] Those who know that their original purpose has been made irrelevant by dramatic improvements in printing technology usually discard them.

Modern invitation design follows fashion trends. Invitations are generally chosen to match the couple's personal preferences, the level of formality of the event, and any color scheme or planned theme. For example, a casual beach wedding may have light, fresh colors and beach-related graphics. A formal church wedding may have more scripty typefaces and lots of ornamentation that matches the formal nature of the event. The design of the invitation is becoming less and less traditional and more reflective of the couple's personality.

The invitation is typically a note card, folded in half, or perhaps French folded (folded twice, into quarters). Other options include a sheet of paper, a tri-fold, or a trendy pocket-fold design. The appropriate paper density depends on the design, but typically ranges from heavy paper to very stiff card stock.