ABSTRACT
Clothing is one of the most immediate and tangible ways to encounter culture. Behind couture fashion, a huge international economic driver that sometimes descends into cultural appropriation, lie the multiple significances of dress. There are also numerous recent cross-cultural studies and episodes specifically connected to aspects of fashion. There’s no end to web images of clothing. Search the internet for candid street scenes to prove that denim is really the choice of half the population anywhere on any given day. A fashion show would be awesome, though it would probably take as much time to set up as a negotiation simulation. It’s worth examining the many guides for how to avoid looking like a tourist. Some cultures want to keep the distinction between civilian and military explicitly distinct and assign the duty of chief military director to a civilian in mufti. Clothing marks off cultural distinctions not only in the present but also in the past.
