Women's dress fashions as a function of reproductive strategy.
Despite many speculations, there is no well-supported explanation for cycles of fashion in women's dress and scholars cannot agree whether fashions reflect societal changes. Generalizing from cycles of bodily attractiveness for women, it was hypothesized that dress styles are reflective of reproduc...
| Publicado en: | Sex Roles Vol. 40; no. 5-6; pp. 459 - 472 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
March 1999
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