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Title Dress codes : how the laws of fashion made history / Richard Thompson Ford.
Author Ford, Richard T. (Richard Thompson), author.
Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
©2021
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  391.009 FOR    Checked Out
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description xi, 443 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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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.
Summary A law professor and cultural critic offers an eye-opening exploration of the laws of fashion throughout history, from the middle ages to the present day, examining the canons, mores and customs of clothing rules that we often take for granted.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-420) and index.
Subject Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- History.
Fashion -- History.
Clothing and dress -- Law and legislation -- History.
Sumptuary laws -- History.
ISBN 9781501180064 : $30.00
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