What did clothing signify in colonial society?

Question

clothing styles varying by class

Answer 1

Clothing is very important in bringing in the temporality of state-society relations & revealing a wider division between cultural time and state time. the kind of clothing were they wear when they get off work, the constant shifting of the self presentation of individuals, & its implications for new thinking about state-society relations. Clothing as we know, is as what people use to cover their bodies, but d additional accessories or body supplements or modifications used is to accentuate and/or exaggerate one's height as a way of eluding or confronting power. How? Since
Clothing is also a language in which people express their identities, affiliations, & values, & more importantly, it is a language that can be readily changed in different social contexts.
"Shapeshitting," so to speak, is a very central strategy for social actors wishing to penetrate d state & for d state to penetrate society. Thus, like social actors, the state changes clothes as well. Considering clothing enables us to investigate when people become entangled in d web of the state, its time, & its modes of identification, & when they elude d state, slip into more comfortable arrangements in terms of both dress & social relations, & take personal control over their outward appearance.

Answer 2

here's a book that would help you:

What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America, written by exhibit curator Linda Baumgarten, Colonial Williamsburg's curator of costumes and textiles and published by the foundation in association with Yale University Press

Answer 3

I can't wait for the day when Cod pieces become popular again.

Answer 4

status - the same as it does today. Nothing has changed - just the words - the meaning are all the same