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2. Handkerchief code - Wikipedia

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   It is thought that the wearing of bandanas by gay men originated in San Francisco after the Gold Rush, when, because of a shortage of women, men dancing with each other in square dances developed a code wherein the man wearing the blue bandana took the male part in the square dance, and the man wearing the red bandana took the female part ...

3. Fashion accessory - Wikipedia

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   One fashion accessory commonly worn by women in Victorian England was the slide bracelet. Slide bracelets were worn after the wrist watch came into fashion. [6] During the early 16th century, in Italy hat badges were worn by civilian men of higher social status as a decorative item, in imitation of the cap badges worn by the invading military ...

4. Lanyard - Wikipedia

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   A retrieval lanyard is a nylon webbing lanyard used to raise and lower workers into confined spaces, such as storage tanks. An activation lanyard is a lanyard used to fire an artillery piece or arm the fuze on a bomb leaving an aircraft. [5] A deactivation lanyard is a dead man's switch, where pulling a lanyard free will disable a dangerous device.

5. Alicia Keys used tomboy style as defense mechanism against men

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   type="quote" author="Alicia Keys" authordesc="Blog" isquoteoftheday="false"% She continues on in her blog post to say, "I could tell the difference, I could feel the animal instinct in them and it ...

6. Fashion - Wikipedia

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   Fashion is defined in a number of different ways, and its application can be sometimes unclear. Though the term fashion connotes difference, as in "the new fashions of the season", it can also connote sameness, for example in reference to "the fashions of the 1960s", implying a general uniformity. Fashion can signify the latest trends, but may ...

7. Semiotics of dress - Wikipedia

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   [4]: 10 Because of these, society has coercive power upon colors, shapes and fabrics in the clothes that men and women should wear. Men would wear pants while women would wear skirts, for example. Within the third category one may find "seductive attire" as it was labeled by Flugel. [4]: 10 However, wearing sex-specific clothing doesn't ...