Fashion As A Social Control

January. 01,1976

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Feminism Fashion Costumes

Trailer Synopsis Cast

A look at the ways fashion has been used to socially control women in Canada, both historically and in the 20th century.

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