![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Subscribe to This Podcast iTunes Stitcher SoundCloud Google Play RSS ![]()
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