ISL 372 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Social Capital, Tumblr, Socalled
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Modest fashion has emerged as a commercial term, an ideological concept, and a category of critical analysis. The variety of ways in which modest presentation has been achieved in the past and in the burgeoning and highly varied contemporary commercial niche market around the work and across the faiths. These developments in modes and styles of modest dress are rarely without controversy: in- group and out-group attempts at surveillance, regulation, and control are a constant feature of how women and men, plan discuss, and experience their modest self-presentation. Women have been dressing with (different definitions of) modesty in mind for centuries. In the late twentieth and early twentieth-first century the commercial manufacture and distribution of modest fashion brought a new set of associations to the composite term (cid:858)(cid:373)odest fashio(cid:374). (cid:859) For many modest dressers of all faiths and at the core of what can be seen as a cross-faith (cid:373)odest fashio(cid:374) (cid:858)(cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:859), the(cid:396)e is a(cid:374) e(cid:373)phasis o(cid:374) (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:272)hoi(cid:272)e.
