Clothing is the first refuge for a person when he or she comes to the earth nakedly.
    Even if this person grows up and becomes an adult, clothing is still a shell for him or her to resist against external powers, such as natural and social forces. A person without any clothing is definitely vulnerable to any possible attacks.Apart from such a protecting function, dresses and adornments put on by ethnic groups also bear a function to sense the super powers existing in the nature, which seem mysterious to the outside world.
    Given such a cultural background, the dresses and adornments of ethnic groups shoulder two kinds of functions - pragmatic and imaginary.
    It is because of this that ethnic dresses and adornments bears a colour of godship in addition to its original nature of offering a covering for the human body.