When Edgar Allen Poe was a young man, he was a cadet at West Point. But he didn't really like it there. He didn't like all the rules, and all the training he had to go through, so one day, when all the cadets were supposed to turn out in formation on the parade grounds, and march before the generals, Edgar Allan Poe checked his rule book to find out what the dress code was for the occasion. It said that he was supposed to wear white gloves and a white belt. So that's what he put on: white gloves and a white belt . . . and NOTHING else! And when the military commanders saw him out there on the parade grounds, they promptly threw him out of the school. Which is what he wanted anyway! (1)

It is awful to think of facing the world naked. Why do we wear clothes, anyway? Have you ever thought of…