Dress and Ideology
- Dress and fashion are powerful visual means of communicating ideology
- Whether political
- Social or religious
- From the communist values of equality
- Simplicity and solidarity exemplified in the Mao suit to the myriad of fashion protests of feminists such as French revolutionary women's demand to wear trousers
- Dress can symbolize ideological orthodoxy as well as revolt
- With contributions from a wide range of international scholars
- This book presents the first scholarly analysis of dress and ideology through accessible case studies
- Chapters are organized thematically and explore dress in relation to topics including nation
- Identity
