#please pardon the weird citation and lack of date i can't find a way to access the quoted source for free
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the popularity of clothing in fixed sizes encountered “multiple cultural resistance[s]” because “they were established for ‘dominated’ people and colonial subjects who usually were part of administrations: children, prisoners, boarders, or soldiers.”
from "Body Doubles: The Origins of the Fashion Mannequin" by Alison Matthews David, quoting Manuel Charpy; available here
#please pardon the weird citation and lack of date i can't find a way to access the quoted source for free#pattern cutting#military fashion show#19th century#[again that is approximate]#historical fashion#original compilations#ignore the rest of that tag i don't stand by most of it
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