A Naked Argument

I gotta be honest, the discussion we had yesterday--nakedness--is still in my head. And I really haven't been able to come up with anything to follow the argument that, yes, God created Man and Woman naked, just like all the animals, but He also clothed them. But He only clothed them because they had sinned. Now, it wasn't technically a part of the Curse, but it was Adam and Eve's shyness that led to God cursing them in the first place. If you remember, after the Fall, they hide from Him while He is walking in the garden, He calls out to them, they come out and say that they hid because they were naked, and they were afraid. He replies, "Who told you that you were naked?" God proceeds to put two and two together and, long story short, curses the bejeepers out of 'em. Only after that does God clothe them with animal skins.

Literal or not, what are we supposed to take from this? How is this intended to grow us? Was God's use of clothing only a kind of, imperfect, but better-than-nothing remedy? Is wearing clothes comparable to Paul's idea of marriage? (e.g. "It's not sin if you do it, but it's really better if you don't.")

Or, in the same way that some people say that God intended for them to sin and need Jesus all along, did He intend for them to need clothes from the beginning? And, as Lewis says, do we "clothe" ourselves with nakedness when we join with that "one special person" as one flesh?

All we know for sure is that Jesus, the ultimate holy example and the One we are supposed to follow and imitate, wore clothes. I know that I could develop this thought much more and most likely take it places that it probably shouldn't go, but thinking of Jesus' example pretty much settles it for me.