a piece of clothing that wraps the wearer in an ideological cloak.
what does the business suit say about the individual that wears it and about the cultural climate? the suit is associated with money, power, and conformity. it is the dress code of those with a common code. it is the procrustean replication of the many into the one, an army of efficiency under hierarchical authority, an infinite duplication and cloning of thought patterns, repetition ad nauseam.
the suit covers the whole body, it is usually monochrome, featuring the colors indicative of man; blue, or that of the lifeless brown, gray or black. the shirt is to be white or blue. it is the clothing that narrows the circumstances, narrows the discussion, narrows the options, narrows the discourse and thought. it is stepping into a certain set of assumptions, viewpoints, and rules of engagement. it is a consumptive stance towards the world.
what if other clothings were to predominate, what would they inform us about our culture and our possibilities? what would they say about our openness, about our welcomeness to diverse visions, about how quickly we ascent to variety and new ideas. as in language and sovereignty, stripping away clothing impales the authenticity of diverse contexts in the world.
the clothes that dominate our meeting rooms, our halls of injustice, our reunions of plutocrats, and our closets of billionaires are the dresses on monotonous conformity to money and power.
