Zoot suits favored by Black and Latino men caused riots in cities fromĮven in today’s more informal world, dress codes In workplaces throughout the United States and in the 1940s the baggy Hair and form-fitting dresses worn by free-spirited flappers were banned In the 1700s, South Carolina’s “Negro Act” made it illegal forīlack people to dress “above their condition.” In the 1920s, the bobbed Ideals of the day, but they always reflected struggles for power and Of red cloth.” Dress codes evolved along with the social and political The Renaissance eraįlorentine patriarch Cosimo de Medici captured the power of fashion andĭress codes when he remarked, “One can make a gentleman from two yards Hose” could be considered a menace to good order. In Tudor England, silk, velvet, andįur were reserved for the nobility and ballooning pants called “trunk Who dressed like princes and butchers’ wives wearing gem-encrustedĬrowns were public enemies in medieval societies structured by social For centuries, clothing hasīeen a wearable status symbol fashion, a weapon in struggles for socialĬhange and dress codes, a way to maintain political control. A description from the Press:ĭress codes are as old as clothing itself. 2021), by Richard Ford Thompson (Stanford Law School). Simon & Schuster has published Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History (Feb.
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