This course examines the ways dress facilitates and stimulates cultural transformations, asserting identity and community association; while simultaneously conveying and maintaining cultural traditions. It includes analyses of how dress can enforce and challenge social boundaries within and between cultures, and the ways it shapes our senses of self and belonging. These ideas will be explored in relation to other concepts and lived realities, such as multiculturalism, colonialism, gender, race, religion, law, power, identity construction, etc.