Adrienne and others interested --

Thanks to all for the multitude of tips on clothing.
Regarding your footbinding and corsets work, have you looked at Anne
Hollander's _Seeing Through Clothes_ and _Sex and Suits_?  I haven't read
these yet, but they come highly recommended by George Basalla, author
of _The Evolution of Technology_.  Anyone have any experience with
Hollander's work?

Doug

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Doug Lantry
University of Delaware
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On Wed, 25 Oct 1995, Adrienne DeArmas wrote:

> In a message dated 95-10-24 16:41:00 EDT, [log in to unmask] (Doug Lantry)
> writes:
>
> >So what schemes do all of you use when evaluating/interpreting clothing?
>
> This may not be related but I am currently looking at corsets and footbinding
> shoes as clothing that placed women in a subordinate position to men. The
> articles of clothing themselves were a reaction to male aesthetics and
> perpetrated by women to appeal to men. Both corsets and fb shoes played
> active roles in the economic and social structure of their respective
> societies, not to mention the ideological concept of what men and women were.
> For more on this, look at Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class. -
> Adrienne
>