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This 5 page paper argues that we can tell a lot about a society from studying the types of clothing its citizens wore, and that fashion is therefore an important subject. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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such things as the latest hem length or heel height. On the other hand, fashion can tell us a great deal about a society and what it values, and how
its members present themselves. This paper argues that fashion is important, and can tell us a lot about the society in which the fashions were worn. Discussion Although the study
of fashion as an academic subject was considered flighty and silly 20 years ago, today "the body has emerged as an object central to behavior, to our drive for meaning,
and to the structure and function of society" (Marano 22). And because the body has become important, fashion has as well (Marano). Clothes are "the most intimate objects we own,"
and they are "associated with identity, or as much of it as we choose to reveal" (Marano 22). In addition, fashion "is a signifying system that can be interpreted, albeit
with great caution" (Marano 22). For example, we are aware of the various fads that young people go through as they try to build their own identity: they may be
Goth one day and preppy the next, and in either case we can make an educated guess as to what they are trying to accomplish. We may get the details
wrong, but in the main they are trying to fit in. Fashion "is just dripping with meaning," but that meaning is "totally dependent on context" (Marano 22). In fact,
the "dynamics of fashion change--where changes start, what sets them in motion, how they spread, and what that reveals about aesthetics, psychology, the social order, the economy--are ... worthy of
study" because of the insights they may reveal about the civilization in which they take place (Marano 22). If we admit that fashion is a window onto its society, the
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