Nguo ni kitambaa ambacho kinaweza kutumika kufunikia meza, kitanda n.k. lakini hasa kutengenezea mavazi mbalimbali yanayovaliwa na mtu kwa ajili ya kujisitiri, kwa sababu ya kutunza heshima yake na kujikinga dhidi ya baridi, jua, mvua n.k. Ndiyo sababu mara nyingi neno "nguo" linamaanisha mavazi yenyewe. Nguo huvaliwa kulingana na hali ya hewa na mazingira fulani, lakini pia kulingana na mitindo inayobadilikabadilika kadiri ya nyakati. Kulingana na wanaakiolojia na wanaanthropolojia, nguo za kwanza zilikuwa manyoya, ngozi za wanyama, majani na nyasi. Uvaaji wa nguo hizi uliwasaidia binadamu haswa katika kujikinga na hewa baya, kujikinga na vumbi pamoja na dhoruba kali. Wikimedia Commons ina media kuhusu: Fabrics Fisher, Nora. Rio Grande Textiles, Paperbound, Museum of New Mexico Press.  Introduction by Teresa Archuleta-Sagel. 196 pages with 125 black and white as well as colour plates. Fisher is Curator Emirta, Textiles & Costumes of the Museum of International Folk Art. Good, Irene. "Textiles as a Medium of Exchange in Third Millennium B.C.E. Western Asia", Contact and Exchange in the Ancient World. University of Hawai'i Press, 191–214.