Why Was Crossdressing Illegal

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Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/DonateORIG • Clothing is ultimately just fabric designed to cover our bodies. So why was it illegal for women to wear men’s clothing and for men to wear women’s clothing? And why is it still illegal in some parts of the world? • Written and Hosted By: Danielle Bainbridge • Graphics By: Noelle Smith • Edited By: Mike Petrow • Fact Check: Sarah Edwards • Produced By: Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com) • Works Cited • https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-d... • https://www.bustle.com/articles/11273... • https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/a... • https://www.advocate.com/arts-enterta... • https://www.vintag.es/2017/09/when-cr... • https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/eeb9... • https://muse.jhu.edu/article/629673/s... • https://www.history.com/news/the-extr... • https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/0... • http://www.businessinsider.com/countr... • https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahb... • https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswit... • https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/fa... • https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa... • https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-d... • • Arresting dress : cross-dressing, law, and fascination in nineteenth-century San Francisco by Clare Sears • Slaves to Fashion: black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity Monica L. Miller • Ramírez, Catherine S. Crimes of Fashion: The Pachuca and Chicana Style Politics. Meridians 2, no. 2 (2002): 1-35. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40338497. • The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory By Catherine S. Ramírez • Freudenberger, Herman. Fashion, Sumptuary Laws, and Business. The Business History Review 37, no. 1/2 (1963): 37-48. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3112091. • Wide-open town: a history of queer San Francisco to 1965 by Nan Alamilla Boyd.

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