Most anthropologists consider modesty an unlikely reason for the development
of clothes. J.C. Flügel writes: “The great majority of scholars … have unhesitatingly regarded decoration as the motive that led, in the first place, to the adoption of clothing, and consider that the warmth- and modesty-preserving functions of dress, however important they might later on become, were only discovered once the wearing of clothes had become habitual for other reasons… .