The Language of Clothes : Alison Lurie - Lurie, Alison (Feltham : Hamlyn Paperbacks Editions, 1981)
For thousands of years, humans have communicated with one another in the language of dress. Long before I am near enough to talk to you on the street, in a meeting, or at a party, you announce your sex, age and class to me through what you are wearing - and very possibly give me important information (or misinformation) as toyour occupation, origin, personality, opinions, tastes, sexual desires and current mood. By the time we meet and converse, we have already spoken to each other in an older and more universal tongue. Its vocabulary includes not only items of clothing, but also hair styles, accessories, jewellery, make-up and body decoration. (book cover)
Schenking Eric de Kuyper
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