Disrobed : how clothing predicts economic cycles, saves lives, and determines the future / Syl Tang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tang, Syl, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing and dress--Social aspects.

Clothing and dress.

Physical Description:

xiv, 167 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]

Contents:

1 Are You Wearing Your Lucky Jersey? 1

Using clothing to read others' minds and thoughts

Why your banker being superstitious indicates a recession is coming

Why even math-based people don't always make decisions using facts

How we wear our emotions and possibly our intent

Clothing tells you what people are afraid of and what they are planning

How clothing is data

2 You Already Know if that's a Fake in the Museum 15

How clothing is linked to worldwide cons in science and finance

How a fake might wend its way into a museum

Malcolm McLarens decades-long war against auction houses

You already have the tools to tell if you're being conned

Why speakeasies are bogus

What résumés and cloning have to do with the financial crisis

How clothing can tell you when the next financial fraud is coming

3 Bankers' Wives are Laundering Money 37

How resale shops just happen to forecast recessions

How Livestrong and Fitbit came to change city maps worldwide

Recycling, this generations peace symbol

Are we consuming more just to claim we are being green rather than just, actually, being green?

How clothing is a weapon of money and power in a divorce

The wife "bonus"

How consumption patterns of the seemingly recession-proof superrich are, in fact, predictors of recession

4 Not Shopping Could Save the Planet 51

We are running out of drinking water, and how our retail behaviors could solve that

What is freecycling? How could it save our earth?

Choosing to machine-wash or dry-clean your clothes could mean the end of sushi

How being cheap became trendy

What the 1980s cash-for-gold commercials and Marie Kondo have in common

The circular economy

Buying one less pair of jeans provides water for the population of Avon, Colorado

The China effect, or when the worlds biggest shoppers might stop buying.

5 Is Your Cotton Shirt Causing Starvation? 69

Food or clothing; we might not be able to have both

Why foraging is just a really, really bad idea

How farm-to-table is possibly causing starvation in Africa

Natural fabric?

Cotton farmers have the highest rate of farmer cancers

Is your T-shirt causing famine?

GMOs, bamboo, fracking, and how one man crossed two continents just to grow his own cotton

Ethanol and the resulting food crises

Why avocado toast is the new blood diamond

6 Can Clothing Save the Lives of Millions? 85

Can existing wearable technology alter the death rate of natural disasters forever?

How a watch could save your life in an earthquake

A Hong Kong coin shortage led to our connected world

Can clothing protect you in a post 9/11 universe?

Ball caps and jackets that could help Alzheimer's patients and prevent car accidents

A purse that could never be stolen

Shoes that could power a city grid

Military-grade facial recognition and how we are already using it

How American author Edward Bellamy predicted the coming cashless world in 1888

7 Burkinis and the Clash of Civilizations 103

How terrorism, clothing, and travel became inextricably linked

How social media made culture the new war, and how culture made clothing the new battleground

The French burkini ban and why laïcité means you should get naked

Why you are ten times more likely to die at the hands of LA gangs than at the hands of ISIS

What ideas about child abuse have to do with banning burkas

The difficulty of modesty in a Bollywood and Instagram world

How clothing became a weapon in the war against terrorism..

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Tang, Syl. Disrobed.

ISBN:

9781442270992

1442270993

OCLC:

973481527