Clothes are wide variety of fabrics, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to preserve modesty, or for fashion. The importance of clothes has gone beyond cultures, time and geographies. Be it the present or the Victorian times, what we wear on our bodies has a grave meaning to who we are. Our clothes reveal who we are as persons and society. In fact, some anthropologist refers to clothes as the “social skin”.
The most captivating uses of clothe is its usage for modesty. We wear clothes to cover our nakedness but surprisingly, in the quest of wanting to be civilized, most people go naked.
Many at times you see some ladies battling with what they wear pretending to want to cover their nakedness when they intentionally wear clothes meant for toddlers or babies hence revealing their cleavages (selling point), lower abdomen and their endowed behind. When they board cabs or are seen on motorcycles, they are always trying to forcefully pull down the clothes to cover the aforementioned.
Before they come down from the motorcycle, they have to lean on the rider who most often have a free feeling of the selling point. Our body as females belongs to us and our husband alone. We need not to go naked before we prove civilized.
None of the religious group encourages nudity in disguise. In the
Quran 24:31 says, ”and say to the believing women that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts and do not display their ornaments except what appears thereof, and let them wear their head-coverings over their bosom, and not display their ornaments except to their husbands or their fathers, or the fathers of their husbands, or their sons, or the sons of their husbands , or their brothers, or their brothers sons, or their sisters’ sons, or their women, or those women their right hand posses, or the male servant not having need (of women) or the children who have not attained knowledge of what is hidden of women; and let them not strike their feet so that what they hide of their ornaments may be known; and turn to Allah all of you, O believers! So that you may be successful.
Again, Q7:26 says,”O children of Adam! We have indeed down to you clothing to cover your shame and (clothing) for beauty and clothing that guards (against evil), that is the best. This is the communication of Allah and that makes it mindful”.
The Bible, in 1
Timothy 2:9-10 says, “I also want women to dress modestly, with decency and
propriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but
with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God (NIV). This implies
that the bible strongly kicks against nudity or disguised nudity as modesty is
translated from one’s form of dressing.
Similarly, dressing is what attracts people to you; hence the way you dress is
how you will be addressed. Much respect is accorded to someone who dresses
smartly and decently while someone with a shabby dress is easily despise.
Because you appear cheap exposing those expensive gifts of yours, you are
treated cheaply while those appearing expensive with all body or essential
parts covered are approached with a calculated and well structured speech and
manner.
In a nut shell, you don’t have to go formal like always appearing on suits before you look decent and smart but go neat and always be choosy in your wardrobe content bearing in mind that your body is not meant for all but your spouse alone. Present yourself as bread that must be bought before tasted not “garri” that people taste before buying which is under probability.
Jemmyluv writes from Katsina. She can be reached via
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