Clothes separate people into groups.

Fashion is revealing. Clothes reveal what people are in. In high school, groups have names: "goths, skaters, preps, herbs." show who you are, but they also stereotypes and distance between groups. For , a businessman might look at a boy with green hair and multiple piercings as a freak and outsider. But to another , the boy is a strict conformist. He dresses a certain way to deliver the message of rebellion and separation, but within that group, the look is . Acceptance or rejection of a style is a to the society we live in. is a language which tells a story about the person who wears it. "Clothes create a wordless means of communication that we all understand," according to Katherine Hamnett, a top British fashion . Hamnett became popular when her t-shirts with large messages like "Choose Life" were worn by several rock bands. There are many we wear what we wear. Protection from cold, rain and snow: mountain climbers wear high-tech outerwear to avoid frostbite and over-exposure. Physical attraction: many styles are worn to inspire "chemistry." Emotions: we dress "up" when we're happy and "down" when we're upset. Religious expression: Orthodox Jewish men wear long black suits and Islamic women cover every part of their except their eyes. Identification and tradition: judges wear robes, people in the military wear , brides wear long white . Fashion is big business. More people are involved in the buying, selling and production of clothing than any other business in the world. Everyday, millions of workers design, sew, glue, dye, and transport clothing to . Ads on buses, billboards and magazines give us ideas about what to , consciously, or subconsciously. Clothing can be used as a political weapon. In nineteenth century England, laws prohibited people from wearing clothes produced in France. During twentieth century communist revolutions, uniforms were used to abolish class and race distinctions.