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“Whenever someone chooses her attire with care and purpose and wears it with confidence and conviction, it is a small victory for human flourishing.”
― Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
― Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
“Ironically, dress codes that require modesty can eroticize the boundary between permissible and illicit, encouraging lust rather than preventing it. Concealment contains the timeless allure of forbidden fruit.”
― Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
― Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
“most gendered clothing doesn’t refer to human biology; instead it reflects a social convention. “Women’s clothing” isn’t clothing that is especially suited to female bodies—it is simply any clothing that women typically wear. This means that every transgression of gender norms is also a potential revision of those norms:”
― Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
― Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
“How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?”
― Acts of Service
― Acts of Service
“Zuckerberg in his uniform of gray T-shirts embodied the ideal ethos of Silicon Valley: an unselfconscious nerd too busy obsessively designing tomorrow’s technology to worry about appearances. This has a naïve charm. But if the CEO of the company thinks he isn’t doing his job if he spends any energy on the frivolous matter of attire, then what are we to think of the employee who arrives at work wearing a sharp tailored suit or a pair of high-heeled Louboutins? Here Zuckerberg’s shift to the second person is revealing: he begins discussing his own ambitions but then insists that “making… decisions about what you wear… consumes your energy.” Purported indifference to appearance becomes a reason to judge based on appearance; a new dress code displaces an older one.”
― Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
― Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
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