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Dress and Morality (Hardcover, Revised)
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Dress and Morality (Hardcover, Revised)
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Moralists have raged throughout history against various fashions
for being too short, too long, too tight, too loose or too costly.
Highlighting the times when choice of dress was a moral minefield,
this enlightening and entertaining book looks at fashion extremes
over the centuries, from the sexual display of the codpiece through
to corsets, crinolines and decolletage. Providing a sharp and
humorous look at the outright risque as well as the grotesquely
exaggerated and even the repulsive, Ribeiro shows how dress has
functioned variously as a vehicle of righteousness or turpitude and
as an expression of sexuality, class or social status. In 747 St
Boniface deemed wide stripes and scarlet borders to incite lust and
ruination of the soul. Well over a millennium later immodest dress
ranked high in Jesuit Father Bernard Vaughan's book on the sins of
society. Medical practitioners once labelled the v-necked top, now
a standard style, 'the pneumonia neckline'. Was it the force of
society or sheer vanity of fashion that drove women to wear sleeves
the size of balloons? Are sexual boundaries between dress worn by
men and women diminishing? What morals still bind us to our
Judeo-Christian heritage and lead us to express ourselves through
appearances?Lavishly illustrated and packed with countless
thought-provoking quotes, Dress and Morality is an in-depth
exploration of the comical vanities and social etiquettes
associated with dress in the past. At last here is the
much-anticipated updated edition of this classic book.
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