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People in ancient Greece could only be seen 'running around butt naked' at the Olymic Games. Nude greek statues are aesthetic statements, not evidence that Greeks went around naked. Celts had a tradition of fighting naked, but otherwhise wrapped up in woolen trowsers, tunics and cloaks.
Clothes wearing probably did begin in Africa (not that it caught on everywhere in Africa). It was evidently not so-well established by the time of migrations that elsewhere in the world peoples would not revert to near nudity, especially in tropical regions of Asia, the Americas and in Australia. Northern Europeans probably always wore clothes against the cold, even before the arrival of modern humans. (Neanderthals also had tailored clothes, not just rough animal skins.)
Otzi the iceman, one of the oldest natural mummies, was found with a good deal of clothing, as his alpine environment necessitated.
Egyptians probably wore more clothes than they were conventionally depicted wearing. Herodotus describes tunics, and cloaks and gloves have been found in tombs. It was obviously deemed manly to go around shirtless, but in actuality this probably wasn't the case.
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