Uniforms
Subtitle: Why We Are What We Wear
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: November 12, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780618067466
First sentence: Society, which the more I think of it astonishes me the more, is founded upon cloth."
Table of contents: title: A Thing About Uniforms --; Colorful Tights for Men? --; Sturdy Shoulders and Trim Fit --; Russian Uniform Culture --; The German Way --; Are Italian Men More Vain than Others? --; Admiral Zumwalt’s Big Mistake --; Brass Buttons --; Generals’ Dress --; Blue Jeans --; The Rise and Fall of the Brown Jobs --; Uniforms of the Faithful --; Deliverers --; Transportationists --; Police and Their Impersonators --; Why Aren’t Grave Violations of Taste Impeachable Offenses, Too? --; Youth on the Musical March --; Doorpersons, etc. --; The Pitiable Misfits of the Klan --; Uniforms of the Sporting Life --; Stigmatic Uniforms --; Weirdos --; Ernest Hemingway, Semi-Weirdo --; Uniformity in American Higher Learning --; Japan as a Uniform Culture --; Academic Full Dress --; Pretties --; Chefs in Their Whites --; The Nurses’ Revolt --; Little Sailor Suits, and an Addendum on Sloppery --; Uniforming the Scouts and Others --; Women’s Nuptial Uniform --; Broad-Brimmed Hats --; Civilian Uniformities --; Keepsakes --; Notes Toward the Reader’s Own Theory of Uniforms.