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A free people ought not only to be armed, but
disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-
digested plan is requisite.

~ George Washington
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1953
Ren Magritte, Golconde
Devo
Devo is an American band formed in 1973
consisting of members from Kent and Akron, Ohio.
The band had a #14 Billboard chart hit in 1980
with the single "Whip It", and has
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maintained a cult following throughout its
existence.
Their style over time has shifted between punk,
art rock, post-punk, and New Wave. Their music
and stage show mingle kitsch science fiction
themes, deadpan surrealist humor, and mordantly
satirical social commentary.
Their often discordant pop songs feature unusual
synthetic instrumentation and time signatures that
have proven influential on subsequent popular
music, particularly New Wave, industrial
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and alternative rock artists. Devo was also a
pioneer of the music video, creating many
memorable clips for the Laser Disc format, with
"Whip It" getting heavy airplay in the early days of
MTV.
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1971
Stanley, Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange
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1971
Stanley, Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange
2005
Tim Burton, Oompa Loompa
-from: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-
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2005
Tim Burton, Oompa Loompa
-from: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-
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1982
Steven Lisberger
-from: Tron-
2005
Tim Burton, Oompa Loompa
-from: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-
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1982
Steven Lisberger
-from: Tron-
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1982
Steven Lisberger
-from: Tron-
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1982
Steven Lisberger
-from: Tron-
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1982
Steven Lisberger
-from: Tron-
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1982
Steven Lisberger
-from: Tron-
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1991
Andrea Zittel, Spring Summer Six
Month Uniform
Zittel began creating Six Month Uniforms in 1991
as a response to the social dictate to wear an
entirely different change of clothes every day. By
wearing a single uniform for six months, she no
only eliminated the stress of choosing a daily
outfit , but also generated an alternative to the
mandate of perpetual variety mandated consumer
culture. More then seventy variations of the A-Z
Personal Uniform now exist. The first A-Z Six
Month Personal Uniforms were cut and sewn. They
ranged from basic wool dresses to silk
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adorned tulle and wool petticoats. For her job in
an art gallery and the working the studio, the
artist needed an attractive yet flexible uniform
(1992); for her work maintaining a chicken coop
and other more strenuous daily activites, the
uniform design added pants (1993).
1991
Andrea Zittel, Fall Winter Six Month
Uniform
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1992
Andrea Zittel, Spring Summer Six
Month Uniform
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1992
Andrea Zittel, Fall Winter Six Month
Uniform
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1993
Andrea Zittel, Spring Summer Six
Month Uniform
Thanx to Ivi Vujovic for the suggestion related to
ms. Zittel clothes.
More about them can be found at: http://www.
zittel.org/works_vertical.php?a_id=11
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Chinese Tunic Suit ("Zhongshan/Mao
Suit")
The modern Chinese tunic suit is a style of male
attire known in China as the Zhongshan suit
(simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese:
; pinyin: Zhngshn zhung) (after Sun Yat-
Sen), and known in the West as the Mao suit (after
Mao Zedong).
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Chairman Mao
Sun Zhongshan (better known as Sun Yat-sen)
introduced the style shortly after the founding of
the Republic of China as a form of national dress
although with a distinctly political and later
governmental implication.
After Sun Yat-sen's death in 1925, popular
mythology assigned a revolutionary and patriotic
significance to the Zhongshan suit. The four
pockets were said to represent the Four Virtues
cited in the classic Guanzi: Propriety, Justice,
Honesty, and Shame. The five center-front buttons
were said to represent the five Yuans (branches of
government) cited in the constitution of the
Republic of China and the three cuff-buttons to
symbolize Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the
People: Nationalism, Democracy, and People's
Livelihood.
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1972
Andy Warhol, Mao
After the end of the Chinese Civil War and the
establishment of the People's Republic of China in
1949, the suit became widely worn by males and
government leaders as a symbol of proletarian
unity and an Eastern counterpart to the Western
business suit.
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Chairman Mao Playing Ping-Pong
The name "Mao suit" comes from Chinese leader
Mao Zedong's affinity for wearing them in public,
thus tying the garment closely to him and Chinese
communism in general in the Western imagination.
Although they fell into disuse in the 1990s amid
increasing Western influences, they are still worn
on occasion by Chinese leaders during important
state ceremonies and functions.
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Chairman Mao
The Mao suit remained the standard formal dress
for the first and second generations of PRC leaders
such as Deng Xiaoping. During the 1990s, it began
to be worn with decreasing frequency by leaders
of Jiang Zemin's generation as more and more
Chinese politians and began wearing traditional
Western-style suits with neckties. Jiang wore it
only on special occasions, such as to state dinners,
but this practice was almost totally discontinued
by his successor Hu Jintao.