The earliest pictorial records of dress are found in prehistorical cave paintings from the old stone age, or early Paleolithic period, some 30,000 years ago. These paintings show little detail, so one can say only that people did dress themselves, and that their clothing appears to have taken the form of draped skirts, cut and sewn trousers, and cape like garments, probably all of which were made from skins. Supporting evidence for this conclusion comes from archeologist, who have found the following artifacts in sites dating from the same general period-needles for seeing, binge scrapers for preparing skins, and bomb devices that were probably used for fastening clothing.
