Why do people wear different clothes around the world?
Walk into any airport and you'll see a parade: saris bright as parrots, parkas thick as sleeping bags, business suits sharp as origami. Why does everyone dress so differently? The answer is part geography, part history, part "because we've always done it this way"—and it all makes sense once you see the pieces.
Start with the obvious one: weather. In the Sahara Desert, where the sun hammers down like an oven set to broil, people wear long, loose robes in light colors. The fabric blocks the sun's burn but lets air flow underneath—your own portable shade tent. Meanwhile, in northern Finland, where winter darkness lasts months and temperatures drop to minus-thirty, people bundle in layers of wool and fur. Same planet, wildly different dress codes, because the climate writes the first draft of what you wear.
