Clothes contain the body. Their countless manners of enclosing it embody a variety of relations between container and contained thing.
Clothes can shape the body, like a vessel shapes a liquid. They may confine the body, keeping it within limits.
They may conceal the body’s shape, either by forcing it inside a strict mould, or by surroundind it with loose-fitting lengths of fabric.
They protect it from the cold, the sun, and the wind.
Cuts and materials provide myriad manners of hiding ans disclosing its various parts of the whole body. Viewing clothes as containers makes them akin to architecture.
Clothes are the soft boxes of the body.
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