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Author Ford, Richard T. (Richard Thompson), author.
Title Dress codes : how the laws of fashion made history / Richard Thompson Ford.
Publisher New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
Copyright date ©2021
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.


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Descript xi, 443 pages, 16 unnumbered pages plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Contents Historical milestones and important dress codes -- Introduction -- Status symbols. Encoding status ; Self-fashioning ; Signs of faith ; Sex symbols -- From opulence to elegance. The great masculine renunciation ; Style and status ; Sex and simplicity ; The "rational dress" movement ; Flapper feminism -- Power dressing. Slaves to fashion? ; From rags to resistance ; Sagging and subordination -- Politics and personality. How to dress like a woman ; Recoding gender ; Piercing the veil -- Retailored expectations. Merit badges ; Artifice and appropriation -- Conclusion: Decoding dress codes -- Epilogue: Dress codes stripped bare.
ISBN 9781501180064
1501180061
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Author Ford, Richard T. (Richard Thompson), author.
Subject Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- History.
Fashion -- History.
Clothing and dress -- Law and legislation -- History.
Sumptuary laws -- History.
Descript xi, 443 pages, 16 unnumbered pages plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Content text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Contents Historical milestones and important dress codes -- Introduction -- Status symbols. Encoding status ; Self-fashioning ; Signs of faith ; Sex symbols -- From opulence to elegance. The great masculine renunciation ; Style and status ; Sex and simplicity ; The "rational dress" movement ; Flapper feminism -- Power dressing. Slaves to fashion? ; From rags to resistance ; Sagging and subordination -- Politics and personality. How to dress like a woman ; Recoding gender ; Piercing the veil -- Retailored expectations. Merit badges ; Artifice and appropriation -- Conclusion: Decoding dress codes -- Epilogue: Dress codes stripped bare.
ISBN 9781501180064
1501180061
Author Ford, Richard T. (Richard Thompson), author.
Subject Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- History.
Fashion -- History.
Clothing and dress -- Law and legislation -- History.
Sumptuary laws -- History.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  GT523.9 .F67  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- History.
Fashion -- History.
Clothing and dress -- Law and legislation -- History.
Sumptuary laws -- History.
Descript xi, 443 pages, 16 unnumbered pages plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Content text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Contents Historical milestones and important dress codes -- Introduction -- Status symbols. Encoding status ; Self-fashioning ; Signs of faith ; Sex symbols -- From opulence to elegance. The great masculine renunciation ; Style and status ; Sex and simplicity ; The "rational dress" movement ; Flapper feminism -- Power dressing. Slaves to fashion? ; From rags to resistance ; Sagging and subordination -- Politics and personality. How to dress like a woman ; Recoding gender ; Piercing the veil -- Retailored expectations. Merit badges ; Artifice and appropriation -- Conclusion: Decoding dress codes -- Epilogue: Dress codes stripped bare.
ISBN 9781501180064
1501180061

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