Dress, Ideology, and Control

This article analyzes English utopian texts written by the educated elite in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in order to identify attitudes toward, or social dreaming about, clothing, fashion, and society in early modern England. From Thomas More's Utopia to Sir Balthazar Gerbier's “Loix,” clothes are repeatedly deployed in governance to enforce legal, political, religious, gender, and social hierarchies and to impose social controls. These texts reveal their authors' largely unexamined attitudes toward dress and the great importance placed by them on the codification of clothing as a primary tool for societal control and the maintenance of social hierarchies

Aesthetics · Art · Clothing · Corporate governance · Economics · Elite · Ideology · Management · Political science · Politics · Social control · Social science · Sociology · Utopia · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law

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