Doug Lantry wrote:
>
> The argument is simple: Made things turn out the way they do because
> people who made them have attitudes, priorities, agendas, cultural
> outlooks, etc. In this way, the politics of homo faber are embedded in
> artifice. How could this kind of thing apply to military uniforms?
> Here's a shot in the dark: I'll bet regalia of different nations and
> military services look very different (and similar too) for reasons
> related to the wishes of their designers and users, and are not entirely
> dependent on the "form-function" question.

Do you mean to say that *cultural outlooks* or *attitudes* are the same thing
as *politics*?  Seems a bit of a stretch to me; though I'm willing to bet
that politics *do* influence uniform design. . . .
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