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Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History by Richard Thompson Ford

2 reviews

aceofknives's review

challenging funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book looks at fashion history from the prespective of social justice laws. It looks at how dress plays a role in social power focusing on in formal to legally binding dress codes from the medical period to the modern day. Some topics covered includes suptuary laws, inforced Jewish dress codes in the mediveal period, cross dressing in the renassiance, veiling practices multiple religions, fashion in the racial justice movement in America, the evolution of women's fashion with the feminist movements, dress codes in work places and schools, and current day casual dress codes.

All the trigger warnings are from the author looking at past and current events and seen from a scholarly perspective. They are not graphic in nature and they are looking directly at the problem to analyze its affect of people and culture. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Antisemitism, Homophobia, Transphobia, Alcohol, Classism, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Hate crime, Outing, Racial slurs, Deadnaming, Racism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Islamophobia, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual harassment, and War

emberthestylesage's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I really enjoyed exploring history and social anthropology through the the lens of fashion and vice versa. This book was well written and ceaselessly interesting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Racism, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Transphobia

Moderate: Sexism, Cultural appropriation, Murder, Violence, Antisemitism, Deadnaming, and Islamophobia

Minor: War