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Article: Clothes make the American man.(BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 6, 2004
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Byline: Jack Matthews, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
This volume belongs to that quite-contemporary class of books that function inductively, utilizing seemingly trivial and commonplace things to provide a perspective into matters of far greater implication and resonance.
The symbolism of clothes has always been obvious, but in this book, Michael Zakim elaborates the role of clothing into "a social history of capitalism and of America's 'great transformation' into a democracy. Such a broad view of the sartorial underlines the important place of clothing in the political imagination."
This great stylistic shift is essentially the evolution of ...