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

4.0

Such an enjoyable read! Having just read [b:Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia], I really appreciated the in-depth analysis of the relationship between the Enlightenment, Puritan disdain for the corporeal, and the resulting “reverse snobbery” of ascetic dress.