Freedom of Fashion: Dress Codes and Sartorial Liberty, Nathaniel Adams, TEDx Jersey City

Dressing is a function as basic as eating or drinking and, in the right conditions, putting together an outfit can be as pleasurable and rewarding as cooking a good meal or mixing a good drink. We value our right to dress as we please and bristle at dress codes that tell us what we can and cant wear. Yet in our increasingly globalized and multicultural world peoples sartorial choices and traditions come into conflict, and clothes become as potent a source of contention as words. From freeing the nipple to