You need to consider who we're talking about and what they
are doing when you answer this question. Huck was running away from an abusive father
and a foster aunt whose attempts to civilize him were not appreciated. Jim was a runaway
slave. Clothing was not something that was important to their
lifestyle.
After they finished ransacking the frame house
that was being washed down the river, their collection of clothing was varied and
impressive.
There was two old dirty calico dresses, and a
sun-bonnet, and some women's under-clothes, hanging against the wall, and some men's
clothing, too... There was a boy's old speckled straw hat on the floor; I took that
too.
Most of the time,
however, clothing of any type was optional. It was summertime on the lower Mississippi
River. Keeping warm would not have been a problem and they spent time swimming every
day. Clothes would have needed to be dried if they had been worn in the river, so it was
easier to simply do without.
We was always naked, day and night, whenever the
mosquitoes would let us - the new clothes Buck's folks made for me was too good to be
comfortable, and besides I didn't go much on clothes,
nohow.
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