Changes in a society are often mirrored in changes in the decorative arts. This research was designed to investigate change in women's clothing fashions (elements of bondage) and its relationship to changing sex roles. Since television is thought to be reflective of the culture in which it exists, the clothing fashions used in this analysis came from three situation comedy series. Results indicate that as sex roles changed from traditional to nontraditional women's clothing in the sitcoms came to exhibit fewer elements of bondage.
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