Why People

Wear Clothes! BY: Vanessa Mora

Protection
Definition: To physically protect you

Need Satisfied: Physical protection

How the example illustrates the term: The

hat protects faces from getting sunburned

Other influences for selecting this garment:

People often wear this with a sundress
during the summer
 Adornment
Definition: To feel powerful and
beautiful

Need Satisfied:

How the example illustrates the term:

For most people dresses are the thing
people feel powerful and confident

Other influences for selecting this

garment: Trends on social media can
cause people to change their style
Identification
Definition: clothing that helps people
define others

Need Satisfied: identity

How the example illustrates the term:

When seen in a suit people assume they
are important are

Other influences for selecting this

garment: This could be some people's
sense of fashion or they could be going
somewhere important
 Modesty
Definition: Clothing that covers up
skin and not revealing

Need Satisfied: Code of decency

How the example illustrates the term:

Covering up skin like no arm or chest
showing

Other influences for selecting this

garment: being cold or going to
church could always influence this
choice
Status
Definition: clothing that the way people
view you

Need Satisfied: Different classes

How the example illustrates the term: fur

makes people seem like they have more
money

Other influences for selecting this garment:

Going somewhere fancy, balls and parties