What is clothing culture?
Clothing culture includes making, choosing and assigning social meanings to garments.
Origins, forms and everyday life
Materials, climate, income, belief, work and fashion shape dress. Ceremonial and daily wear differ, and preferences vary among people and generations. One outfit is not an immutable symbol of an entire culture.
Meaning, change and safeguarding
Collections should document textiles, sewing labor, use history and owners’ permissions. Makers’ rights matter when discussing cultural borrowing and commercial imitation.
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