Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a shawl to return.
The frivolous dress order and exhibitionist work lifestyle are often celebrated as liberating—a rejection of Puritan or patriarchal uniformity. Yet this paper concludes that they represent a more insidious form of control, one that colonizes the worker’s intimate self-expression for corporate entertainment. True frivolity, in the sense of playful, unproductive excess, may only be possible outside the logic of the “order.” As such, future research should explore whether pockets of resistance exist in explicitly anti-exhibitionist subcultures or in labor organizing around the right to a private, unfashionable, and boring work appearance.
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