Disrobed : how clothing predicts economic cycles, saves lives, and determines the future / Syl Tang.
Disrobed explores how soft goods reflect the state of the world and where it might be headed.
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- ISBN: 9781442270992
- ISBN: 1442270993
- Physical Description: xiv, 167 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Are you wearing your lucky jersey? -- You already know if that's a fake in the museum -- Bankers' wives are laundering money -- Not shopping could save the planet -- Is your cotton shirt causing starvation? -- Can clothing save the lives of millions? -- Burkinis and the clash of civilization -- Conclusion: the power to change everything. |
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Subject: | Clothing and dress > Social aspects. |
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Disrobed : How Clothing Predicts Economic Cycles, Saves Lives, and Determines the Future
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Disrobed : How Clothing Predicts Economic Cycles, Saves Lives, and Determines the Future
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Introduction | p. ix | |
Introducing the central idea of the book: Clothing is a bellwether, a canary in a coal mine, a tool. | ||
Did clothing predict Donald Trump would win? | ||
How you can see the effects of Hurricane Katrina at your neighborhood TJ Maxx | ||
You can use clothing to predict changes in the world | ||
Clothing tells you what large groups of people are thinking, even before they know themselves | ||
Clothing can save your life | ||
1 | Are You Wearing Your Lucky Jersey? | p. 1 |
Using clothing to read others' minds and thoughts | ||
Why your banker being superstitious indicates a recession is coming | ||
Why even math-based people don't always make decisions using facts | ||
How we wear our emotions and possibly our intent | ||
Clothing tells you what people are afraid of and what they are planning | ||
How clothing is data | ||
2 | You Already Know if that's a Fake in the Museum | p. 15 |
How clothing is linked to worldwide cons in science and finance | ||
How a fake might wend its way into a museum | ||
Malcolm McLarens decades-long war against auction houses | ||
You already have the tools to tell if you're being conned | ||
Why speakeasies are bogus | ||
What résumés and cloning have to do with the financial crisis | ||
How clothing can tell you when the next financial fraud is coming | ||
3 | Bankers' Wives are Laundering Money | p. 37 |
How resale shops just happen to forecast recessions | ||
How Livestrong and Fitbit came to change city maps worldwide | ||
Recycling, this generations peace symbol | ||
Are we consuming more just to claim we are being green rather than just, actually, being green? | ||
How clothing is a weapon of money and power in a divorce | ||
The wife "bonus" | ||
How consumption patterns of the seemingly recession-proof superrich are, in fact, predictors of recession | ||
4 | Not Shopping Could Save the Planet | p. 51 |
We are running out of drinking water, and how our retail behaviors could solve that | ||
What is freecycling? How could it save our earth? | ||
Choosing to machine-wash or dry-clean your clothes could mean the end of sushi | ||
How being cheap became trendy | ||
What the 1980s cash-for-gold commercials and Marie Kondo have in common | ||
The circular economy | ||
Buying one less pair of jeans provides water for the population of Avon, Colorado | ||
The China effect, or when the worlds biggest shoppers might stop buying. | ||
5 | Is Your Cotton Shirt Causing Starvation? | p. 69 |
Food or clothing; we might not be able to have both | ||
Why foraging is just a really, really bad idea | ||
How farm-to-table is possibly causing starvation in Africa | ||
Natural fabric? | ||
Cotton farmers have the highest rate of farmer cancers | ||
Is your T-shirt causing famine? | ||
GMOs, bamboo, fracking, and how one man crossed two continents just to grow his own cotton | ||
Ethanol and the resulting food crises | ||
Why avocado toast is the new blood diamond | ||
6 | Can Clothing Save the Lives of Millions? | p. 85 |
Can existing wearable technology alter the death rate of natural disasters forever? | ||
How a watch could save your life in an earthquake | ||
A Hong Kong coin shortage led to our connected world | ||
Can clothing protect you in a post 9/11 universe? | ||
Ball caps and jackets that could help Alzheimer's patients and prevent car accidents | ||
A purse that could never be stolen | ||
Shoes that could power a city grid | ||
Military-grade facial recognition and how we are already using it | ||
How American author Edward Bellamy predicted the coming cashless world in 1888 | ||
7 | Burkinis and the Clash of Civilizations | p. 103 |
How terrorism, clothing, and travel became inextricably linked | ||
How social media made culture the new war, and how culture made clothing the new battleground | ||
The French burkini ban and why laïcité means you should get naked | ||
Why you are ten times more likely to die at the hands of LA gangs than at the hands of ISIS | ||
What ideas about child abuse have to do with banning burkas | ||
The difficulty of modesty in a Bollywood and Instagram world | ||
How clothing became a weapon in the war against terrorism. | ||
Conclusion: The Power to Change Everything | p. 119 | |
Acknowledgments | p. 123 | |
Notes | p. 125 | |
Index | p. 159 | |
About the Author | p. 167 |