Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Arising in occupied Trinidad was unprecedented public debate about the relationships between clothes and the overlapping precepts around class, gender, race, and empire.
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
Although the local administration admitted no link between newly arrived Americans and its amendment of the established dress code, framing the decision as a wartime measure to conserve fabric, the U.S. presence undoubtedly spurred the new policy."