n. 流行, 风尚, 时样 vt. 形成, 造, 作
It may sound surprising, but you don’t have to be interested in fashion, or even in history, to enjoy Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History.
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You will probably never think of fashion as a trifle again.
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Ford’s thesis is that the best way to understand what particular fashions meant in any given era is to look at the restrictions placed on them.
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Through this lens, he shows us that the first laws passed in the 1200s to ensure that only the nobility were allowed to wear certain fabrics, colors and ornaments reflected the rise of the middle class, who were now able to imitate some of these fashions.
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The status of the upper classes was threatened; fashion was a tool to preserve it.
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