After thousands of years of wandering, people learned that they could live in one place with other humans and grow what they needed. This is known as an agrarian society. People learned how to raise certain animals for the meat and the skins. They learned to grow certain plants for food. People no longer had to spend all their time hunting and farming.

1. INTRODUCTION TO CLOTHING The records of mans use of Textiles, dates back thousands of years before the birth of Christ. Our knowledge of the early development in textiles is very meagre as they are not evident through proper records. Textiles were first developed as a means for carrying food and as mats in shelter. Only in later stages it is used as clothing.