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1It may sound surprising, but you don't have to be interested in fashion, or even in history, to enjoy Dress Codes: How
2the Laws of Fashion Made History. I happen to be interested in both, and ended up enjoying the book for completely
3different reasons. Richard Thompson Ford is a law professor, and you probably won't forget that for even one page. His
4carefully reasoned arguments, packed with examples, sound almost like reading a court opinion, only maybe wordier. You
5will probably never think of fashion as a trifle again. Ford's thesis is that the best way to understand what particular
6fashions meant in any given era is to look at the restrictions placed on them. Through this lens, he shows us that the
7first laws passed in the 1200s to ensure that only the nobility were allowed to wear certain fabrics, colors and
8ornaments reflected the rise of the middle class, who were now able to imitate some of these fashions. The status of the
9upper classes was threatened; fashion was a tool to preserve it. Ford takes the reader through the evolution of fashion
10while examining the underlying motivations of status, sex, power, and personality, which, he assumes, influenced all
11innovations in fashion in the past and which continue to influence us today. His writing is more than a little
12dense-dense with research, clauses, and precise adjectives and nouns. But there's also humor and enough interesting
13episodes to make the writing appealing. No one is spared his sharp analysis: not the easy targets of 19th century
14women's crippling (伤害身体的) fashions nor the modern uniforms of Silicon Valley T-shirts. But the greatest strength of this
15book (on fashion! ) is its intellectual profoundness. Ford asks us to question unconscious beliefs, to realize that we
16almost never do so, to understand that the simplest choices are charged with meaning, and yet that meaning can and does
17change all the time. Consider the fact that a 1918 catalog insisted that boys and girls be dressed in the appropriate
18color. We believe our thinking today is evolved; Ford shows us it's not.
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