Dress Codes
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Ancient Greece
Author_Ruth Rubenstein
Author_Ruth Rubinstein
authority power dress
Baudelaire
bettmann
Bettmann Archive
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Charles Pierre Baudelaire
church
clothing
Clothing Images
Clothing Signs
Clothing Symbols
cultural dress analysis
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Fashionable Attire
father
Flapper Fashion
front
Front Stage Performance
gender representation clothing
Gibson Girl
Informal Social Control Mechanisms
International Gothic Style
Luxurious Dress
male
Male Dress
Monastic Attire
NBC Nightly News
Nonliterate Societies
Nonuniform Uniforms
North American Free Trade Agreement
performance
Philip III
Priestly Attire
Ruth P. Rubinstein
semiotics of fashion
signs
Sixteenth Century Medicis
social identity markers
stage
symbolic interactionism attire
symbols
visual semiotics in American clothing
Young Men
Zoot Suit
Product details
- ISBN 9780367098483
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 May 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Rich with illustrations, this revised and updated second edition of Dress Codes systematically analyzes the meaning and relevance of clothing in American culture. Presented here is an up-to-date analysis of images of power and authority, gender, seduction (the sexy look, the alluring look, the glamorous look, the vulnerable look), wealth and beauty, youth and health, and leisure and political hierarchy. Taken together, the chapters offer to the student and the general reader a complete "semiotics of clothing" in a form that is highly readable, very entertaining, and thoroughly informative. The illustrations provide fascinating glimpses into the history of American fashion and clothing-along with their antecedents in Europe-as well as a fine collection of images from the more familiar world of contemporary America.Rubinstein has identified six distinct categories of dress in American society, upon which Dress Codes is based. "Clothing signs" were instituted by those in authority, have one meaning, indicate behavior, and are required attire (police uniforms, or the clothing of ministers and priests); ?clothing symbols," on the other hand, reflect the achievement of cultural values?wealth, beauty, you and health. The wearing of clothing symbols?designer clothing or jewelry?may have several meanings; '`'clothing tie-signs,? which are specific types of clothing that indicate membership in a community outside mainstream culture (Hasidic, Amish, or Hare Krishna attire). They were instituted by those in authority, have one meaning, they indicate expected behavior, and are required attire; ?clothing tie symbols? emanate from hopes, fears, and dreams of particular groups. They include trendy styles such as hip-hop, hippie, and gothic. Another category, ?contemporary fashion,? reflects consumer sentiments and the political and economic forces of the period. ?Personal dress,? refers to the "I" component we bring in when dressing the public self (bowtie, dramatic, or artistic at
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