Clothing as a SECOND SKIN
“Dress then, forms part of our epidermis- it lies on the boundary of self and other.”
“The body is both an intimate and social object.”
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There it was— enclothed cognition, a state similar to embodied cognition but unique to clothing. The findings suggested that the physical act of wearing a lab coat actually made the subjects better at a test of attention and sharpness. The wearer embodied the symbolic nature of her guise.