Fashion police dictated gender norms in early modern Genoa
December 10, 2024
December 10, 2024
ITHACA, New York, Dec. 10 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
While fashion magazines and social media strongly influence how people dress today, there were literally fashion police in most early modern European cities, according to art history scholar Ana Cristina Howie, with local laws dictating down to the gold button and the color of silk what people of various groups could and could not wear.
"You can wear silk, but only in a certain number of col . . .
While fashion magazines and social media strongly influence how people dress today, there were literally fashion police in most early modern European cities, according to art history scholar Ana Cristina Howie, with local laws dictating down to the gold button and the color of silk what people of various groups could and could not wear.
"You can wear silk, but only in a certain number of col . . .