Parnassus Books: Richard Ford in Conversation with Dan Sharfstein
OnlineParnassus Books is happy to welcome Richard Thompson Ford, author of Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History, in conversation with Dan Sharfstein. This is a virtual event which will take place on the Parnassus Books Facebook page. Watch Now Join us Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at 6:00PM Central Time. After the live […]
Richard Thompson Ford discusses "Dress Codes" with Jeannie Suk Gersen
OnlineHarvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes RICHARD THOMPSON FORD—George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and author of the acclaimed book Rights Gone Wrong: How Law Corrupts the Struggle for Equality—for a discussion of his latest book, Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History. He will be joined in […]
Richard Thompson Ford, in conversation with Ariela Gross, discusses Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
OnlineDress codes are as old as clothing itself. For centuries, clothing has been a wearable status symbol; fashion, a weapon in struggles for social change; and dress codes, a way to maintain political control. Merchants who dressed like princes and butchers' wives wearing gem-encrusted crowns were public enemies in medieval societies structured by social hierarchy […]