So, I rarely ever post blogs, journals, anything of that sort anywhere. Just never feel like it.

But I just ran across this after seeing a kotatsu in the Kekkaishi manga, and had to share. I've known about the kotatsu for a while now, but never thought of this. From wiki:

The kotatsu was designed for people wearing traditional Japanese style clothes, where the heat would enter through the bottom of the robes and exit around the neck, thus heating the entire body.

So now I'm thinking about how clothes can integrate into general lives...

Furs, having fur, would have less a need for clothes in terms of keeping the body warm. This I've understood for a long time, as have most other artists I see (Or they just like drawing the body... hehe). But, if clothes aren't needed to keep the body warm, what other reason is there?

Modesty? Doesn't make sense as an initial step, as clothes are artificial.
Protection? Maybe, but how often are there fights that need armour in your world? (Next to none in mine)

So now I'm wondering what other reasons there could be. Like pockets. But also if they can be integrated into their culture more closely, like the kotatsu and kimono...