Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
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Art University of Tehran
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Associate Professor, Department of Art Research, Art University of Tehran.
Abstract
Along with establishing modern military, bureaucratic, and educational institutions, Pahlavi I government exerted Uniform clothing system on men, and women to some extent, in 1920s Iran. This clothing system represented the hegemony of power structure on people’s lives, and was among significant means of power for controlling the nation, and constructing a modern, ordered, and disciplined society. This essay, with studying the historical texts of this time, intends to study the functions and indications of Uniform clothing system for Pahlavi government, and it’s relation to ideology of nationalism, and the process of modern nation-making in Iran.
Uniform manifested order, dynamic world, modern aesthetic, and was a reflection of a disciplined, educated, and loyal society to structure of power. Uniform was a means for promoting the demanded nationalism of the era, political control of tribes and clergy, constructing a new nation state with modern identity, and was a means to internalize this new identity in nation. This study is to understand the political, social, and aesthetic mechanisms of uniform clothing system, with the aim of recognition of advantages or disadvantages of these prescribed dress codes; codes which are still the basis of considerable political, social, and cultural conflicts in contemporary Iran.
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