I absolutely love making fashion apparel coverings and accessories, which have adornments to help in keeping warm from mental & physically cold environments. I often work in fifteen-to-thirty-degree freezer and fridge rooms, so creating wool beanies has been essential to my survival in this type of food-work environment. It has long been assumed that the first clothing was the skin of an animal killed for food and used for a covering. One of the oldest depictions is in the caverns in the French Pyrenees known as Trois Freres. This cave painting shows a man wearing animal skins and a headpiece. It appears that he was a hunter disguised as an animal.
My favorite way to create a psychological protection, on the other hand, is to adorn my fashion apparel with renewed words of hope and nature inspired images to ward off "unseen evil spirits." From the most ancient times through today, psychological protection has been an important function of clothing. Scholars theorize that the origin and primary function of adorning the bodies was the need to fend themselves from harmful spiritual powers.
The Hmong (Miao), a northern Thai people, embellish their clothing with fine applique and embroidery for psychological purposes. One example of this are their baby carriers, for they are decorated to prevent evil spirits from attacking the baby from the back. Mothers usually adorn the textiles with auspicious symbols like the butterfly mother (from Miao folklore) and fish to keep the babies safe, healthy, and happy.
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