Simon & Schuster

9781501180064

STARRED REVIEW

Dress Codes

In Dress Codes, Richard Thompson Ford has created a thorough and well-thought-out history of fashion from a legal and societal perspective.

Share this Article:

Review of ‘Dress Codes’

Does fashion matter? In his new book, Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History, Stanford Law School professor and author Richard Thompson Ford argues that it absolutely does—and not just to so-called fashionistas but to everyone, whether they realize it or not.

Over the centuries, people have been praised and punished alike based on…

Sign Up

Stay on top of new releases: Sign up for our newsletter to receive reading recommendations in your favorite genres.