Naked, But For My Intellect

My original paper was centered on a personal experience wherein a co-worker had commented on the clothes I was wearing. My goal was to use that experience to explore why I make certain fashion choices—such as wearing skirts and high heels to work—and how these choices affect my sense of accomplishment. The reaction I received, from both Eben and a number of my peers, tells me that the focus of my paper was misplaced. My focus was on fashion choices in relation to gender and sexuality, but the issue that generated interest concerned the role clothes play with regard to identity and class.

The topic of clothes and class has been explored quite thoroughly in the ClothesMaketheLawyer talk and I don’t wish to simply regurgitate arguments that have already been made. So I have decided to use my revision to refactor that talk in order to make the information therein more organized and accessible. See ClassandClothes, for my refactoring of ClothesMaketheLawyer. Please feel free to add and change anything at all.

--Main.MinaNasseri - 25 May 2008