Bodily dress norms imprint deeply enough to feel naked when they are lifted.

Evidence

I felt naked when I came back, and I wasn’t wearing roosari and everything. There’s just something you have when you’re there. It’s very shocking at first. Same thing in Iran; you go there, and you’re like, “Okay, well I guess I’m going to cover my head now.” It’s not a big deal, but it is different. It’s this paranoia that’s justified every time I get scolded when I’m out in public by the morality police. Then, it’s weird to come back here and not even have to give that a second thought. In the US, you actually stick out for being observant, for wearing a scarf. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 413

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: A strong sensory anchor for a scene: a returning traveler’s visceral ‘naked’ feeling when a once-oppressive garment ritual is removed — the body’s memory of surveillance.
• XREF: connects to: Shame at nakedness symbolizes the human condition of being seen as an object. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 784