Genesis 2: 25. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Genetic and carbon dating studies on the human louse, which requires human garments in order to survive, suggest that people started to wear clothes around 70,000 years ago.

Hans Baldung Grien's "Original Swimwear" (above) from the early sixteenth century shows Adam and Eve wearing their own-design Copacabana collection.

Although the couple's beachwear is far from ample when evaluated on Victorian and modern Iranian clothing skimpiness scales, some experts believe that this early attire was a response to primitive post-coital bashfulness and guilt.

3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

Other, perhaps more realistic, explanations maintain that Adam and Eve were testing prototypes of either the more complex Parky Trondheim Winter series or their ISO 9002-endorsed safety protection from the sharp claws of playful young kittens.