Dress Codes Av Richard Thompson Ford

Dress Codes Av Richard Thompson Ford

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 sy......
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<b>A “sharp and entertaining” (<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>) exploration of fashion through the ages that asks what our clothing reveals about ourselves and our society.</b><BR><BR>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 politica
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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 for power and status. In the 1700s, South Carolina’s “Negro Act” made it illegal for Black people to dress “above their condition.” In the 1920s, the bobbed hair and form-fitting dresses worn by free-spirited flappers were banned in workplaces throughout the United States, and in the 1940s, the baggy zoot suits favored by Black and Latino men caused riots in cities from coast to coast. Even in today’s more informal world, dress codes still determine what we wear, when we wear it—and what our clothing means. People lose their jobs for wearing braided hair, long fingernails, large earrings, beards, and tattoos or refusing to wear a suit and tie or make-up and high heels. In some cities, wearing sagging pants is a crime. And even when there are no written rules, implicit dress codes still influence opportunities and social mobility. Silicon Valley CEOs wear t-shirts and flip-flops, setting the tone for an entire industry: women wearing fashionable dresses or high heels face ridicule in the tech world, and some venture capitalists refuse to invest in any company run by someone wearing a suit. In Dress Codes, law professor and cultural critic Richard Thompson Ford presents a “deeply informative and entertaining” (The New York Times Book Review) history of the laws of fashion from the middle ages to the present day, a walk down history’s red carpet to uncover and examine the canons, mores, and customs of clothing—rules that we often take for granted. After reading Dress Codes, you’ll never think of fashion as superficial again—and getting dressed will never be the same.

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Utforsk Klodens Estetikk med Dress Codes Av Richard Thompson Ford

Dress Codes Av Richard Thompson Ford er en fascinernede reise gjennom motens utvikling, en bok som tar for seg hvordan klesdressing har formet våre liv og samfunn gjennom tidene. I denne skarpe og underholdende fremstillingen vil du oppdage hvordan klær ikke bare er et praktisk plagg, men også et bærende symbol på status og identitet.

Hva Kan Du Forvente av Dress Codes?

  • Engasjerende Historie: Ford gir deg en gripende oversikt over kleskoder fra ulike epoker, fra middelalderske hierarkier til moderne samfunnsbevegelser.
  • Samfunnsrefleksjon: Boken stiller spørsmål ved hva klær sier om oss og hvordan de påvirker samfunnet. Dette er ikke bare mote, men en del av vår kulturelle identitet.
  • Ikoniske Eksempler: Lær om hvordan historiske figurer som Cosimo de Medici brukte klær som politiske verktøy. Hans sitat, “One can make a gentleman from two yards of red cloth,” er et testament til kraften i fashion.

Dypdykk i Mote med Richard Thompson Ford

Enten du er en motefreak eller bare nysgjerrig på hvordan klær påvirker vår hverdag, gir Dress Codes deg verdifull innsikt. Ford tar leserne med på en reise der klær blir et løft for både individuell uttrykk og samfunnskontroll.

Perfekt for Alle Med Interesse for Mote

Denne boken er ideell for både fashionister og de som ønsker å forstå dybden av hvordan klærformer kultur. Med sin lettfattelige stil kombinert med dyptgående analyser, er Dress Codes en nødvendighet for enhver bokhylle.

Ikke gå glipp av muligheten til å lære av Fords skarpe observasjoner og engasjerende fortellinger. Gjør deg klar til å se på klær med et helt nytt perspektiv!

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ProduktnavnThompson Ford, Richard Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History (1501180088)
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