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Author Ford, Richard T. (Richard Thompson), author.

Title Dress codes : how the laws of fashion made history / Richard Thompson Ford.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
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Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description xi, 443 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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 [375]-420) and index.
Subject Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- History.
Fashion -- History.
Clothing and dress -- Law and legislation -- History.
Sumptuary laws -- History.
Clothing and dress -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst01768851
Clothing and dress -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00864722
Fashion. (OCoLC)fst00921600
Sumptuary laws. (OCoLC)fst01138556
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781501180064 (hardcover)
1501180061 (hardcover)
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