To make sure that you look classy and not trashy, incorporate accessories that give the
dress a more elegant and luxurious feel.
But people are look-look ing to buy a
dress as an investment so they can wear it again in the future."
There was a constant tension between white demands on African American dress for both domestic slaves and field hands and the slaves' fight for as much autonomy within their
dress as they could maintain.
Many companies, particularly those in the IT, fashion and entertainment industries have virtually abandoned the "corporate uniform." Others encourage candidates to
dress as the interviewer does, meaning it is acceptable to come casual on dress-down day.
Dress as an analytical category, as I will show below, is very important in bringing in the temporality of state-society relations and revealing a wider division between cultural time and state time.
Thus, like social actors, the state changes dress as well.
Dress as means of authenticating social categories, legitimating and contesting authority, and as means of the producing and reproducing values(11) is a central component of my argument.