Dress Codes: Meanings and Messages in American Culture
- ISBN-10
- 075675237X
- ISBN-13
- 9780756752378
- Series
- Dress Codes
- Pages
- 314
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Author
- Ruth P. Rubinstein
Description
Clothing and fashion form images used by society to organize itself, maintain social order, and integrate social change. These images emanate from the "collective memory," a vocabulary of images accumulated since the ancient past.
