The Second Skin

Sex and Age Roles

both sexes rejected all forms of dress that would in any way add to their physical attractiveness.

Is this the ideal? Is to dress just shoring up ourselves, projecting something that isn’t really there?

Their shabby, drab, and ‘mildewed’ suits became a badge of self-sacrifice to the state.

This makes me thing of the lack of dress as oppression, not the ideal but the opposite. Surely dress is good, expression and life are good. But sometimes people express things out of lack or perceived lack. Out of fear or anger or reproach.

the late 1950s … a renewed interest in clothes began to develop

So, maybe there’s something in people that want to express themselves in over the course of time people, when given the choice, will express themselves, their sexuality, through clothing.

tomboy behavior is regarded with amusement … Little boys, however, have less freedom, and tendencies toward feminine behavior are given immediate disapproval.

Can confirm.

when Chinese women wore trousers, their feet were bound and deformed.

Say more about this.


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