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 Probably the latter, considering that different cultures consider different parts of the body as “shameful” if left exposed. 
 Perhaps. I wonder though if modesty (linked to morality, virtue) - might socially condition one into believing that exposing certain parts of the body is shameful. In this case, clothing defines shame.. Or back during colonizer’s days and victorian fashion era, indigenous without clothes were considered primitive and labeled inappropriately - and although the indigenous did not feel inappropriate, those with clothes felt shameful when they saw someone else without them. On the contrary, Adam and Eve might define shame before clothing. Damn Apple