Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
Dress Codes explores how laws governing clothing and appearance have influenced history. Richard Thompson Ford examines fashion as a social and legal subject, showing how rules about what people wear can reveal changing values, institutions, and power.
About This Book
Dress Codes examines the relationship between clothing, law, and history.
The book considers how rules about dress can reflect broader social values and structures.
It presents fashion as more than personal style, showing its connection to public life and legal authority.
Richard Thompson Ford explores the historical significance of the ways people are permitted—or required—to appear.
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