![]() ![]() Additional support was provided by James J. ![]() Lead support for this podcast has been provided by Elizabeth “Lisette” Prince. Lapham speaks with Richard Thompson Ford, author of Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History. Join us for a virtual conversation with author and professor Richard Thompson Ford discussing his latest book, Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History. Lapham and Ford discuss the morals and politics behind history’s fashion trends-and the ones that surround us today. Moreover, these dress codes didn’t just reflect preexisting associations between clothing and social status, sexual morality and political position-they also reinforced and at times even created these associations, changing the way people thought of those wearing a certain garment and how the people wearing it thought of themselves.” Sometimes dress codes are quite explicit about the meaning of the attire they regulate: for instance, some Renaissance-era dress codes said that red or purple symbolized noble birth, and others insisted that jewelry and sumptuous adornments were signs of sexual licentiousness. ![]() “We can get a hint about how people understood an article of clothing by looking at the rules that allowed and prohibited it. “A dress code can be the Rosetta Stone to decode the meaning of attire,” law scholar Richard Thompson Ford writes in his book Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History. A sharp and entertaining (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of fashion through the ages that asks what our clothing reveals about ourselves and our. Subscribe to This Podcast iTunes Stitcher SoundCloud Google Play RSS ![]()
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