As children grow, they learn to make sense out of the visual chaos around us. We develop an internal methodology to analyze, categorize and stereotype the people around us based, in part, on how people look. This subconscious analysis is a useful tool, yet most people are unaware of how deeply this process is rooted in our own cultural biases.
Clothing is a ubiquitous part of our lives.
Each day we get up and choose what to wear. On the surface, what you put on your body may seem to be a simple question, but there are many ways of approaching the issue of why that particular garment is hanging in the closet in the first place as well as why you wear clothing in the first place. About the Instructor Joan Mather, Truman's costume designer, has made a lifelong study of what people wear, why they chose one look over another, and what those choices say about them. She has studied clothing in the context of theatrical design, fashion, aesthetics, sociology, psychology, history and merchandising.