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Appearance: Its Social Meaning

By Lorne Tepperman

 

In his classic sociological work Asylums, Erving Goffman notes that the first step taken by a total institution, suchas a prison or mental hospital is to resocialize an inmate, bseparatinthe inmate from old identities and identifiers.1Interestingly, this process beginby changing

the inmate’s appearance—for example, bforcing the inmate to wear an institutional uniform, while removing allindividual identifiersuch as jewellery or personal assets. Often the inmate is forced to wear a generic hairstyle, whichis another way of regimenting the body and

eliminating individuality. The loss of one’s own clothing signifies the loss of an old identity and social status. Theadoption of an institutional uniform represententry into a lowstatucommunitof identical inmates or subjects. Inthis real sense, the old maxim is true that “clothes make the man (or woman). Humble clothes make humble people.

Consider the humble uniforms worn by members of the Salvation Army—a religious organization devoted tourban good works, originally involving the moral uplift ofallen people. Winston notes that the popular image of Salvation Armwomen changed during the period

18801918, due in parto their adoption of plain, unfashionable clothing, which enabled them to enter public placessuch as saloons to do their work without criticism.2 So dressed, Salvation Armwomen practised spiritual warfare onestablishments that promoted sin and vice. Their uniform, dramatically severe, came to representraditional serviceand old-fashioned virtue.

The connection between appearance, clothing, and self has been known ancommented on for a long time.The nineteenthcentury Scottish novelist and essayist Thomas Carlyle wrote abouclothing metaphorically in hicomicwork Sartor ResartusThere he useclothing to stand in for all symbols of selfPeople use clothing and other items related to their appearance to construct their personal identities within the context of their daily lives. However,personal identities are linked to social identities. Clothes define our place, role, anposition in the social order.Carlyle believed that clothes presenus to ourselves and to thworld” as we negotiate our freedom of dressed selfexpression.3

In turn, society affects both what we reveal and conceal of our bodies.4 Social pressures

constantly undermine our choice and reduce the basic right of selfexpressionAs a resultclothes never reveal thewhole self, since they mabe imposed on us or we may use clothes tconceal ourselves. However, given some choicein how we dress, the choices we make tell thworld who we thinwe are, and who we want to be.

Not surprisingly, appearance norms are gendered—like manyother social norms. Not only are men and women judged by different appearance standards; they also wear differentkindof clothing, according to their different social roles and statuses. Take pockets:

 

1 Irving Goffman, Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates (Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor,1961).

2 Diane Winston. â€œLiving in the Material World: The Changing Role of Salvation Army Women, 18801918,” Journaof Urban History 28(2003), 4: 46687.

3 Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (Boston, Mass.: Ginn and Company, 1896).

4 William J.R. Keenan, Dressed to Impress: Looking the Par(Oxford: Berg, ed. 2001).


historically, pockets on women‘s clothing have been smaller and fewer than pocketon men‘s clothing. For women,pockethave been decorative, for men practical. Even today, men and women use their pocketdifferently (that‘s whywomen carry purses), and pocketplay a part in the construction of gender.

Underwear is also gendered, though usually unseen excepbtheir wearers and intimate acquaintances. Men‘sunderwear tends to be sturdy and plain. Women‘s underwear tendto be flimsy and decorative, as though it was ondisplay as part of the mating game. When middle-class women began to wear underpants in the early 1800s, their”drawers” werfeminized by fabric, ornamentation, and an open crotch.5 Such open drawers on respectable, supposedly passionless women presented female sexuality as both erotic and modestIn thtwentieth century,however, women demanded crotches in their drawers, to establish their sexual prop  

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