CLOTHES

Clothing has often been examined in relation to the body. The physicality of the owner is materialised through the survival of textiles and garments. The stomacher was worn by a woman, and was later probably used as a ritual object for its capacity to represent a physical person.

History and material culture: a student’s guide to approaching alternative sources

The main categories of material culture involved here are clothing as a second skin, all domestic containers, buildings and architecture, ships and means of transportation, or all constructions that are aimed at channeling substances: dams, canals, pumps, pipes, roads, traffic lights, and all the technology of human containment such as prisons, cells, airports, camps of various kinds.

Handbook of Material Culture

The relation between body and clothes.