For both women and men dress is always the subject of social constraints.
One of Carnival's happier street parties has traditionally been held in Ipanema, where gay men dress as women and entertain revelers just by standing around.
They were members of the Satmar Hasidic sect, whose men dress in dark coats and hats, wear long beards like their Eastern European ancestors and have limited dealings with the outside world.
Two to five local men dress as deities called Toshidon, donning straw raincoats decorated with the leaves of indigenous plants and monstrous masks with long, pointed noses, oversized fangs and demonic horns.
Phillips-Van Heusen used to be a sleepy maker of men's dress shirts.
Along the way she does all the required reading for her MBA, but through the beveled glass of the padlocked corner office she sees men in blue dress shirts with power ties playing carpet golf and high fiving each other.
And selling not just sort-of-kind-of male-ish products or services, but companies named for what they do The Good MEN Project and The Ministry of Supply: Reinventing Dress Shirts for MEN?
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There are women wearing Muslim headscarves with small children in tow and men clad in colorful African dress.
She alleged the rule was a case of gender discrimination because the Pentagon was not asking US male soldiers to dress like Saudi men outside their base.
Firstly, business casual dress varies between men and women.
People tithed in Mercury dimes and buffalo nickels, and pews filled with old men who wore ancient black suit coats over overalls, and young men in short-sleeved dress shirts and clip-on ties.
At many clubs both men and women will have to dress up to get in or fit in.
The night before the fight, a paella cooking competition is held where women traditionally dress in white, and men forego shirts altogether.
With shame, I now recall the nervousness I felt when boarding the plane because several bearded men, included one wearing traditional Arabic dress, had gotten on board ahead of me.
To conquer reserve, fancy dress was worn, often involving men in women's clothing.
These performers should be able to dress any way they choose, both men and women.
Shirts get manufactured, websites get built, the nature of dress shirts change, the stereotypes of men change as well.
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Shoe Carnival (SCVL): Also based in Indiana (Evansville), this footwear retailer offers dress, casual and athletic footwear for men, women and children.
The men have well-coiffed silver hair and the women dress immaculately in clothes that whisper old money.
He cautions men, however, to avoid going too light in a dress shoe.
Family members, friends, and members of the Indian Sikh community say they are being targeted because their men wear turbans and long beards as part of their religious dress, a tradition that's lasted for 500 years.
According to the AP, after the announcement was made, a panel of media representatives and executives (both men and women) got together to work out the specifics of the new dress codes and voice their concern.
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"Gay men don't actually appear to feel the need to stress that side of themselves in their dress, " says Ms Wright, of consultancy firm Colour Affects.
She attributes fancy menswear's growing sales figures to the fact that many men are now experimenting more with clothes--trying on new looks at a time when the old dress-for-success rules have broken down and new rules have yet to be written.
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