Does a deer have exactly enough brains to tan its own hide?
Rushed weekday mornings leave little time to contemplate the backstory of the clothes we toss on. A majority of the time, we simply buy shirts, jackets or jeans from a store and call it a day, no questions asked. And although you may have sewed a button on a shirt or adjusted a skirt’s hem, for most of us, wardrobes require little manual labor. Obviously, early man’s clothing was a different story. Millions of years ago during hunter-gatherer times, there was no linen, silk or cashmere. And you can forget the mall. Only the plants and animals available to our ancestors could protect their bodies from the environment. Before PETA and pleather, humans dressed for utility, not fashion, and the most durable and weather-resistant fabric around came from animal hides. Archaeological evidence traces the history of leather back as far as 20,000 B.C. [source:
