Someone wrote in [personal profile] kimberlysteele 2022-01-01 11:19 pm (UTC)

My Guess...

...based on exactly zero actual scholarship, was that the no-mixed-fabrics thing was either A) a prohibition on trying to look higher status than one actually was or B) a way to make the tribe more distinct from their neighbors in order to help forge a group identity.

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