The creative possibilities of dress as a personally expressive medium are available to us all. Because even a gesture suggesting an inatention to fashion - say, puling on a unwashed T-shirt with sweat pants and flip-flops to pick up the Sunday morning paper- is a statement of attitude and identity. Nuanced narratives are articulated through dress and position us in relation to others. But in addition to this mechanism of dress as a complex of codes, there is dressing as play, as a creative act, beyond the essential requirements of our construction of social identity.
Harold Koda
(in Style File - The Worlds most Elegant dressed - Ike Ude -2008 -Harpers Collins Publishers.)
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