This is why the largest group of persons in Fairbanks who get minor cases of frostbitten skin are high school students. High school clothing choices are determined more by social concerns than by practical ones. The Old Testament laws require all followers of Jehovah to wear blue tassels on their clothing so as to distinguish themselves from persons of other religions, and further exhort believers not to wear clothing associated with the opposite gender. While the first instruction was and is ignored by members of the Christian and Moslem sects of monotheism, as well as by most modern Jews, the latter instruction has made it's way into law in numerous countries. We are not doing something, we are omitting to put on clothing.
Nakedness is perceived as a threat.
Forcing another person to be naked is also deeply threatening. Most persons, if strip searched by police or airport officials without cause, will be so deeply upset they will attempt to take legal action against the officials involved. Stripping political prisoners is a common way of humiliating and subduing them, and in cold climates is often used as a form of torture. Clothing is also deeply personal. Artists, social reformers, and individualists of all kinds have found expression for their ideas and aspirations through dress.