“Body image is such a big thing in the 21st century. Most people feel there is something about themselves that is not so wonderful but people find when they get into naturism that no one is bothered about it. It’s the media and fashion industries that makes you feel you should hide yourself in a room if you don’t have the perfect body, which doesn’t exist anyway.” —Andrew Welch, quoted in https://disabilitynow.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/the-naked-truth/

"It is nonetheless something of an irony that those who vehemently reject clothes tend to think more deeply about dress than most, at least in relation to its shortcomings. In so doing— especially in the earliest days of the movement — nudist practitioners have produced detailed, distinctive, and sometimes sophisticated understandings of fashion and its discontent, which have largely been overlooked as a site of dress theory." — Dr. Annebella Pollen, https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.5325/utopianstudies.28.3.0451.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3Ab8a0b5c17290cc62f0235c7531d1eb10&ab_segments=&origin=&initiator=&acceptTC=1