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A ?sharp and entertaining? (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of fashion through the ages that asks what our clothing reveals about ourselves and our society.Dress 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. Merchants dressing like princes and butchers? wives wearing gem-encrusted crowns were public enemies in medieval societies structured by social hierarchy and defined by spectacle. In Tudor England, silk, velvet, and fur were reserved for the nobility, and ballooning pants called ?trunk hose? could be considered a menace to good order. The Renaissance-era Florentine patriarch Cosimo de Medici captured the power of fashion and dress codes when he remarked, ?One can make a gentleman from two yards of red cloth.? Dress codes evolved along with the social and political ideals of the day, but they always reflected struggles forBook Detail :
Author : Richard Thompson Ford
Pages : 464 pages
Publisher : Simon Schuster
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ISBN-10 : 1501180088
ISBN-13 : 9781501180088
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