2009/06/01 by Yuet See Monica Owyong · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Fashion and Cultural Textiles #Public Spaces through Art
paper · doi:10.1080/10350330902816434
openalex publication_date 2009/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Henry David Thoreau once said: “It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes”. Indeed, clothes do much more than meet our physical and physiological needs. Clothes convey meanings in society beyond the superficial, enacting and even creating power relations between people. Considering the indispensability of clothes in our lives and the empowering, or disempowering, effects of clothes, this paper seeks to provide a framework with which clothing semiotics may be meaningfully explored and discussed.