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Stereotyping Clothing: Defining Social, Intellectual Status and Modernity

June 10, 2020June 10, 2020 Arushi Kapoor 4 Comments attire, attires, backward, British, British government, city person, clothes, colonial, colonial powers, conservative, elite, equality, fashion, flip flops, generalisations, intellectual, jeans, judgements, Lala Deen Dayal, Lifestyle, middle class, modern, modern girl, modernity, privileged status, security, short dress, social mobility, social practice, social status, Society, stereotypes, stereotyping, traditional, trend, upper class, village person, vogue, western world

“Underlying the present quest for form and pattern is the basic assumption that dress is a systematic means of transmission of information about the wearer.”
M.L Damhorst rightly articulated that a person’s dressing speaks about his or her personality. Or does it really? Lets’ trace this stereotyping history till contemporary “modern” world.