Dress Behind Bars: Prison Clothing as Criminality

摘要

Design and cultural historians searching for academic texts on uniform are likely to encounter a huge literature on the subject. There are many books on uniform, but it is rare to find a focused analysis of uniform clothing from a specific period, or work that theorizes the social role of regulation dress. Even fewer books situate the emergence of uniform clothing within the visual economy and industrialization of nineteenth-century modernity. Not only were uniforms key to the development of mass-produced clothing in Europe, they were also central to the social education and reform projects associated with modernity.