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This paper reviews two articles, 'Fashion, Adornment and Sexuality, and 'Love, Desire and the Pursuit of the Whole: Dress and the Lesbian Couple' as well as the popular 1980s film 'Pretty In Pink' to explore the connection between love and dress. According to the paper, each of these represents a different observation about adornment and how it expresses and signifies the development of the whole person through desire and coupling.

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"The thematic representation of dress in these three works is an obvious representation of adornment as a necessary aspect of attraction. In Entwistle's Fashion, Adornment and Sexuality the author details the representation of adornment as a possible essential element of attraction. In one example she discusses the idea that nudism is not thought of as erotic by most people, even nudists and that many nudists even choose adornment to signify their openness to a sexual experience. "That clothes 'add' sexuality to the body is further evidenced by the fact that nudists will often wear some form of adornment for evening social events as a prelude to a sexual encounter." (2006, p. 182) Adornment is therefore essential to signify the level of development which we have attained, e.g. what we are ready for. For most people in the modern word dress signifies both who we are as individuals and where we are as developed beings. "

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