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- Title: Dress Code
- Author : Veronique Hyland
- Release Date : January 15, 2022
- Genre: Design,Books,Professional & Technical,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : KB
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In the spirit of works by Jia Tolentino and Anne Helen Peterson, a smart and incisive essay collection centered on the fashion industryâits history, its importance, why we wear what we wear, and why it mattersâfrom Elle Magazineâs fashion features director.
Why does fashion hold so much power over us? Most of us care about how we dress and how we present ourselves. Style offers clues about everything from class to which in-group we belong to. Bad Feminist for fashion, Dress Code takes aim at the institutions within the fashion industry while reminding us of the importance of dress and what it means for self-presentation. Everythingâfrom societal changes to the progress (or lack thereof) of womenâs rights to the hidden motivations behind what we choose to wear to align ourselves with a particular social groupâcan be tracked through clothing.
Veronique Hyland examines thought-provoking questions such as: Why has the âFrench girlâ persisted as our most undying archetype? What does âdressing for yourselfâ really mean for a woman? How should a female politician dress? Will gender-differentiated fashion go forever out of style? How has social media affected and warped our sense of self-presentation, and how are we styling ourselves expressly for it?
Not everyone participates in painting, literature, or film. But there is no âopting outâ of fashion. And yet, fashion is still seen as superficial and trivial, and only the finest of couture is considered as art. Hyland argues that fashion is a key that unlocks questions of power, sexuality, and class, taps into history, and sends signals to the world around us. Clothes means somethingâeven if youâre âjustâ wearing jeans and a T-shirt.
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