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What is the relationship between clothes and the new man?

The new man transcends the conditioning of society, wearing clothes not as a mask of conformity but as a celebration of individuality and naturalness.

— Osho
According to Osho, clothes are a social device that arose with private property and the ownership of women; they help enforce sameness, dictate movement, and suppress individuality alongside education, food rules, and ideologies. The new man sees this conditioning, wears clothes only functionally and consciously, refuses herd-imposed styles, and reclaims naturalness and uniqueness instead of hiding the body or identity behind cultural uniforms.

Clothes began as control; the new person uses them wisely, not to copy others.