Clothes (ID)

Clothing dates back centuries, and has many functions and uses. They can be used for style, and attract the crowd towards you. It can be used for warmth, or even protection. Back then Native Americans used hides of dead animals to cover themselves. These hides could be used just to cover the vital organs that needs covering, or it can be used to maintain warmth. Usually the Native Americans use deer skin to make their clothes, but it can vary on what animal was hunted. There are processes that comes with making clothes. The Native American women usually tan the hide first so it will last a long time, and not decompose. After the tanning process, which takes a while, they sew the leather together, and make the clothing.

Nowadays clothing is made on factory plants that sews everything. Of course back then the clothes were made by hand, which meant more time and money was spent on labor. The basic material that is needed for the production of clothes is cotton. Workers use mature cotton do make all basic clothing. Considering back then animal skin was used as clothing, now we use cotton. The process used to make clothes is a bit time consuming. They need to blow away the ball from the cotton fibers to leave behind a fluffy material, and then remove the seeds. Back then everything was done by hand, and they used the cotton gin to help with cleaning the cotton.