"Ford isn't a fashion historian but rather a professor at Stanford Law School. As such, he doesn't wallow in the minutiae of Savile Row tailoring or wander into the weeds of Seventh Avenue personalities. Instead, he has a lawyer's eye for the ways in which legislation and common law have helped shape attitudes about fashion, along with a fan's sustained curiosity about fashion's visual language."
Robin Givhan at The Washington Post reviews Richard Thompson Ford's Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Changed History.
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