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protection. It is an act of signification and therefore a profoundly social
act right at the very heart of the dialectic of society.

Notes

1 Interview published in Echanges, assumption 1966; Oeuvres complètes
vol. 2, 121–5.
2 Kroeber and richardson, Three Centuries of Women’s Fashion, Berkeley,
university of California Press, 1940.
3 Those variations observed by Kroeber and richardson.
4 Flügel, Psychology of Clothes, London, hogarth, 1950.