Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History

by Richard Thompson Ford

Book Overview

A revelatory 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 who dressed like princes and butchers' wives wearing gem-encrusted crowns were public enemies in medieval...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501180061
• ISBN13: 9781501180064
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"