The history of clothing encompasses the clothes worn in various places at various times and the methods by which those clothes were made or acquired.
Subcategories organized by date:
- Category:African clothing covers
- Clothing worn in north Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, from paleolithic to the pre-modern era
- Category:History of Oceanian clothing covers
- Clothing worn in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and the Pacific Islands, from paleolithic to the pre-modern era
- Category:History of Asian clothing covers
- Clothing worn in China, other parts of Asia, and the Middle East, from paleolithic to the modern era
- History of clothing (ancient Greece) covers
- clothing worn by Greek-speaking peoples settled near the Aegean Sea from 1600 BC to 330 AD (the Mycenaean, classical, Hellenistic, and Roman eras), up to the beginning of the Byzantine Empire (330 AD).
- History of clothing (Byzantine) covers
- Clothing worn in the Byzantine empire (330 AD - 1453 AD)
- Category:History of clothing (Western fashion) covers
- clothing worn in Western Europe since antiquity, and in the Americas and other countries under European or American influence from c. 1750 to World War II.
- There are many subcategories, such as:
- Category:Medieval European costume covers
- Clothing worn in Europe from the dawn of the Middle Ages (loosely c. 350-500 AD) to the birth of modern Western fashion around 1750.
- Categories by era and century
- Folkwear or traditional dress and later commercial fashion worn in Europe from ancient times to the c. World War II
- Category:History of fashion covers
- clothing worn from antiquity to the modern day.