The Human History Hidden Behind Dress Codes

​How have dress codes been implemented and enforced throughout history? What is the relationship between dress codes and European colonialism and imperialism? This book club explores answers to these questions through three different case studies. Join FRD Senior Researcher and Managing Editor, Dr. Laura Beltrán-Rubio, for an hour of live discussion about the social aspirations, political ideals, and human history hidden behind dress codes.

​Readings:

• ​Journal article: Cloths, Clothes, and Colonialism: India in the Nineteenth Century — Bernard S. Cohn

• ​Short reading: The 18th-Century clothing that reveals hidden truths — Cath Pound on BBC

• ​Interview: Dress codes can reveal social aspirations, political ideals, says Stanford scholar — with Richard Thompson Ford

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