While clothing serves a purely practical function, how you dress also communicates many things about your social status, state of mind and even your aspirations and dreams. (Para. 6)
Meaning: "While the purpose of wearing clothes is simply practical, the way you dress also sends information /messages about your position in society, about how you feel and think, even about your strong desires and dreams to do or be something.
n. 功能,函数,职务,重大聚会
vi. 运行