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Functional Fashion

Putting aside the very basic need for clothing for warmth and protection from the elements, many items of clothing are created for a specific purpose. Functional clothing is used in industry as uniforms that can easily identify the wearers’ job or status. Doctors as an example are well known for their white coats, surgeons on the other hand can be identified by their green ‘scrubs’. The emergency services have uniforms that identify them easily such as police officers, army and firemen.
Functional clothing also serves other purposes aside from identification of the wearer. Many careers involve extreme conditions and as such need clothing that helps protect them when exposed to these conditions. Our previous example of the fireman is an obvious one.

Firemen wear protective clothing that is especially resistant to hear and yet allows the person a good deal of manoeuvrability. This is obviously crucial when inside a burning building. There are many such examples in which clothing is specially created with the person’s career in mind, examples such as welders, gardeners, scientists and many more. Even hundreds of years ago it was realised that clothing could have more than just the purpose of protection form the elements. We just need to visit a local museum to see examples of armour and other such ancient protective items of clothing. It has therefore been obvious for a long time that clothing can have more purpose than protection from the elements or to conform to cultural norms of decency in body exposure.

You can read more about fashion on the Telegraph website.