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According to the renowned social critic and historian Paul Fussell, we are what we wear, and it doesn't look good. Uniforms parses the hidden meanings of our apparel -- from brass buttons to blue jeans, badges to feather flourishes -- revealing what our clothing says about class, sex, and our desire to belong. With keen insight and considerable curmudgeonly flair, Fussell unfolds the history and cultural significance of all manner of attire, fondly analyzing the roles that uniforms play in a number of communities -- the military, the church, health care, food service, sports -- even everyday civilian life. Uniforms is vintage Fussell: "revelatory, ribald, and irresistible" (Shirley Hazzard). Read more Rated 4.4 out of 5.
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According to the renowned social critic and historian Paul Fussell, we are what we wear, and it doesn't look good. Uniforms parses the hidden meanings of our apparel -- from brass buttons to blue jeans, badges to feather flourishes -- revealing what our clothing says about class, sex, and our desire to belong. With keen insight and considerable curmudgeonly flair, Fussell unfolds the history and cultural significance of all manner of attire, fondly analyzing the roles that uniforms play in a number of communities -- the military, the church, health care, food service, sports -- even everyday civilian life. Uniforms is vintage Fussell: "revelatory, ribald, and irresistible" (Shirley Hazzard). Read more
Key details: Publisher: Mariner Books | Publication date: November 10, 2003 | Edition: Reprint | Language: English | Print length: 204 pages | ISBN-10: 0618381880 | ISBN-13: 978-0618381883 | Item Weight: 7.4 ounces | Dimensions: 5 x 0.58 x 8.75 inches | Customer Reviews: 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (28)
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Review snippets: Fussel is the first to look so sharply at the common traits of our surreptitiously approaching brave new world. We almost arrived. Read more / I am VERY surprised by the number of negative reviews here. You'd think most of the unhappy reviewers were PhD students trying to meet a deadline for a paper, and was bummed that this material was not as "academically respectable"
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent overview
Rating: 5
January 15, 2011
I am VERY surprised by the number of negative reviews here. You'd think most of the unhappy reviewers were PhD students trying to meet a deadline for a paper, and was bummed that this material was not as "academically respectable" as it needs to be for their purposes. Historically exhaustive? Fastidiously archival? Psychoanalytical? Filled with statistics? No, this book is NOT that kind of book. Better: it is a TERRIFIC overview of how people - you, me, everyone - are affected by the sight of uniforms. And Fussell gives you plenty of anecdotal examples of how this is so. A lot of women are turned on by men in uniforms - by men they would give 2 shite to if in jeans. A lot of women apparently have confessed to eagerly waiting for the DHL or the UPS guy to show up, making his daily deliveries. Who knew that a slight change in design in the Navy uniform would cause such a big fluctuation in enrollment? That the airplane-using industries had to borrow 'nautical' terms for their purposes makes a fascinating story about how the airlines and the Air Force had to design their uniforms. General Patton was a real fop, and used to change - when time allowed - his uniform 3 times a day. You can be sure HE had a lot to say about, and DID say, how soldiers should look on the battlefield as well! All in all, a very delightful, funny, thought-provoking introduction to a topic that COULD BE otherwise tedious and too serious, and even "politically-correctional." Don't be so serious: read this and enjoy your flight. You will look at those flight attendants in a wholly new way, and be surprised by what the flight crew call the male stewards. Read more
5.0 out of 5 stars The Universal Attire
Rating: 5
December 15, 2002
Everyone wears a uniform. Of course, the military, the church, sports teams, and letter carriers all have their uniforms, but then so do lawyers, doctors, and businessmen. In these less regimented occupations, there is a universal dilemma: "Everyone must wear a uniform, but everyone must deny wearing one, lest one's invaluable personality and unique identity be compromised." So writes Paul Fussell in _Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear_ (Houghton Mifflin), a funny look at all sorts of intentional and unintentional uniforms. Fussell is a historian with plenty of hefty, well-regarded books to his credit, but here he has adopted a perfect light tone for what he admits is "unabashedly a book about appearances." In over thirty chapters, some only a couple of pages, some full of research, some personal essays, Fussell has called attention to the way we dress, something he shows we are already paying a great deal of attention to anyway. Of course, uniforms are most closely associated with the military. It shows up in surprising ways. Despite any Bolshevist tendencies, Russian uniforms had style and elegance, perhaps as a compensation for the poverty of the officers. The tendency for lesser states to compensate by overdress in uniform is cited here repeatedly. The pictures of the Japanese surrender on the _USS Missouri_, for instance, show "the triumphant Allied officers in their informal, unpretentious khakis, pressing forward for a sight of the humiliated, overdressed Japanese officers and diplomats wearing standard hot uniforms and striped trousers, black tailcoats, and silk top hats." The crisis in current military uniforms is that they are looking the same, in different services and in different nations. Camouflage patterns have become the style. "The hope was that the infantrymen would look like leaves or some natural flora and thus deceive the enemy." American commanders can choose between the most popular "Woodland" version, also favored by hunters, and the alternates "Desert," "Arctic," and "Urban," the last one "imitating building surfaces like stucco, concrete, and brick." But this is decidedly not a book about military uniforms only. The Catholic religion, baseball and basketball teams, the Salvation Army, police, brides, firemen, doctors and nurses, academics in dress robes, chefs, the Mounties, the National Park Service, war reenactors, the Ku Klux Klan, the Boy and Girl Scouts, and many more uniformed services are treated here. There is only a bit of organization to Fussell's book, though there is plenty of insight and humor. The subject is a perfect one for some joshing, but it is serious all the same. He reminds us, "Dressing approximately like others is to don armor against contempt. Better to be not noticed at all than noticed and targeted as odd." Read more
4.0 out of 5 stars Good, fun pop sociology
Rating: 4
December 11, 2002
Having grown up in an army family, I've always been aware of the subtle distinctions among military uniforms, while at the same time being semi-unaware of them because they were so fundamental to my world. In his urbanely witty but sharply observant way, Fussell identifies much deeper distinctions: The Russian love of large shoulderboards, the 20th century German fascination with black, the Italian thing for plumes, and the different perception and philosophy between British class-conscious khaki and American egalitarian olive drab. And the essential reason army and navy uniforms are so very different: until the Cold War, the army and its uniforms were made up anew for each new major conflict, while the navy continued to exist much the same in peacetime as in wartime. But "uniform" means more than the military -- witness the ubiquity of blue jeans in the United States and, eventually, all over the world. Fussell also asks the questions most of us wouldn't have thought of, like why do British and American cops tend to dark blue uniforms, quite unlike the tradition in Continental countries? Why do commercial airline pilots wear uniforms at all? (The early ones didn't.) Why are UPS men considered sexy while FedEx guys aren't? And what was it with Elmo Zumwalt and Richard Nixon when it came to bizarre uniforms? This isn't a very long book, nor is it scholarly in style, but it's a lot of fun. And you'll find yourself looking at all the uniformed people around you with a new eye. Read more
5.0 out of 5 stars An intresting read for my teenage sons, the free thinkers....
Rating: 5
August 23, 2009
I have senior and sophomore boys in high school (who are also in boy scouts, one is an eagle scout) and it was interesting for them to see how folks in uniform are looked upon and "classified" (the younger one wants to go into the Navy before college). Interesting topic for the dinner table. Read more
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