Clothes and the Law
I have a feeling I’m going to be thankful for this chapter. This is something I’ve thought a lot about. Hard to say why. I often think of clothing as norms or as some standard placed on people by someone or something else.
Restrictions on dress that are enacted into always and sanctioned through some type of legal enforcement are usually considered necessary to maintain social, political or moral order.
THE FIRST ORDER.
Proscribe (prohibit) or Prescribe
Laws of Proscription
It may well be that society’s deeply rooted feelings of morality regarding an appropriate distinction between the sexes accounts, impart, for the open hostility encountered by many young men who adopted shoulder-length hair styles.
It is so healthy for me to read this because the only perspective I’ve ever had is a religious one. Its so great to have someone take a macro view about societies, their trends, and their tendencies.
although a strip artist usually can meet the requirements of the law with a pastie on each breast and a G-string. The exact requirements vary with the state, sometimes the city.
WHO ARE WE?
Also, whats a “strip artist”?
evils of misrepresentation … for example … the death penalty is usually give to a wartime spy caught wearing the enemy’s uniform. Such laws also prohibit the impersonation of one sex by the other.
What.
the clothing of today follow the general folkways, customs, mores, and laws of contemporary society.
What does science want to do here? Maybe it could show us something about ourselves.
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