Dress Codes
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Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
By Richard Thompson Ford102 In the mid-ninteenth century, the English poet Lady Emmeline Stuart -Wortley remarked: Emmeline Stuart-Wortley, Travels in the United States During 1849 and 1850 (New York: Harper & Bros., 1851). 102 for example, Thomas Ford, ...
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Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
By Richard Thompson FordDress codes are as old as clothing itself. For centuries, clothing has been a wearable status symbol; fashion, a weapon in struggles for social change; and dress codes, a way to maintain political control.
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Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
By Richard Thompson FordIn other words, those rule breakers replace the old rules with new rules—often as uncompromising as those they just broke. Here, I am reminded of the Pinnacle Peak Steakhouse in Southern California, known for its large portions and ...
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Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods--My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine
By Noelle HoweyThe daughter of a father with transgender issues discusses her struggles to win his love despite his brusqueness, her relationships with her tomboy mother and conservative grandmother, and how she reacted after learning at fourteen that her ...
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Dress Codes: Meanings And Messages In American Culture
By Ruth RubinsteinPresented here is an up-to-date analysis of images of power and authority, gender, seduction (the sexy look, the alluring look, the glamorous look, the vulnerable look), wealth and beauty, youth and health, and leisure and political ...
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Dress Codes: Meanings and Messages in American Culture
By Ruth P. RubinsteinClothing 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.
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Dress Codes: Meanings And Messages In American Culture
By Ruth RubinsteinRich with illustrations, this revised and updated second edition of Dress Codes systematically analyzes the meaning and relevance of clothing in American culture. Presented here is an up-to-date analysis...