key sentence:

Uniforms can restrain and control the mind through the composition of their appearance. Use the same form, similar tones, etc. to clearly indicate the corresponding group. p81

Uniform’s restraint

The uniform savagely displays the results directly in front of people, and zeros out the “existence” of people into a kind of “attribute.”

When you want to find your identity by dressing up, the first thing you should do is to resist the uniform.

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Reflection:

The author has a philosophical background, and the whole book is rather esoteric and difficult to understand. In fact, the book promotes an inventive mind— the human body is imaging rather than an object. I finished reading this book, which brought me more thinking about fashion. Fashion has a powerful influence as a language. At the same time, the author mentioned his views on uniforms. He believed that uniforms bound individuals, turning everyone into an attribute, such as turning different boys and girls into students. He emphasized that if you want to find yourself, the first thing to do is to resist uniforms, but I think that uniforms, as students’ daily dress, cannot be changed. How can we “resist” on this basis. If I redesigned a set of uniforms, and everyone wore exactly the same, but it was more fashionable, would it still be against the “personal”? This is linked to the question raised in the tutorial, How can someone express their individually whilst showing they are still in the collective.