costumery and textiles offer an indirect expressive register

English translation: women can express themselves in an indirect way by costume and textiles

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English term or phrase:costumery and textiles offer an indirect expressive register
Selected answer:women can express themselves in an indirect way by costume and textiles
Entered by: Yvonne Gallagher

15:06 Jun 15, 2014
    The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2014-06-18 15:54:11 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)


English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
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English term or phrase: costumery and textiles offer an indirect expressive register
The women of Westeros do a lot of self-fashioning through fashion. As in all regimes which deny civic and personal agency to women, costumery and textiles offer an indirect expressive register unavailable elsewhere, a textural iconography of self.
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women can express themselves in an indirect way by cosume and textiles
Explanation:
the type of clothes they wear or in how they fashion or wear those clothes

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Note added at 15 mins (2014-06-15 15:21:47 GMT)
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oops, sorry: cosTume

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Note added at 17 mins (2014-06-15 15:23:24 GMT)
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it seems the women have little opportunity to express themselves and their individuality so the way they choose to dress gives them an opportunity

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Note added at 3 days1 hr (2014-06-18 16:08:03 GMT) Post-grading
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glad to have helped. Sometimes it is difficult to split a sentence into separate terms to get the sense...
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Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 09:59
Grading comment
Thanks!!!
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4 +1women can express themselves in an indirect way by cosume and textiles
Yvonne Gallagher


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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
women can express themselves in an indirect way by cosume and textiles


Explanation:
the type of clothes they wear or in how they fashion or wear those clothes

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Note added at 15 mins (2014-06-15 15:21:47 GMT)
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oops, sorry: cosTume

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Note added at 17 mins (2014-06-15 15:23:24 GMT)
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it seems the women have little opportunity to express themselves and their individuality so the way they choose to dress gives them an opportunity

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Note added at 3 days1 hr (2014-06-18 16:08:03 GMT) Post-grading
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glad to have helped. Sometimes it is difficult to split a sentence into separate terms to get the sense...

Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 09:59
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PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks!!!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tina Vonhof (X): It seems to be a poorly written source text.
15 mins
  -> Thanks Tina. Oh. fairly typical of some academic gibberish I'd say: "self-fashioning"/"textural iconography of self"??!
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