387 Loving Virginia Woolf | Fashion in Literature (with Lauren S. Cardon)
The History of Literature
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How Fashion Can Be a Marker of Identity
Fashion can be a sign of wealth or poverty. Or, for example, it could be a marker of the person's independence or not. And i'm thinking of school uniforms or other things that people do to try to embellish what they're wearing. But i thought, just to orient the listeners, i'd tick through some of the different things that fashion can show. O, ok. They're very thereare a lot of gradations among both of those, right? Ok. So i want to save that, because i think what was really interesting about your book is how you've found differences in the way this was done in the first half of the twentieth century and the second
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