Surface Patterns – Surface Law

Abstract

 On my almost daily bicycle rides in the mornings of the spring and early summer 2013 I began noticing the presence of several women wearing trousers with large printed patterns. I wondered whether this might indicate a certain shift from the dominant modern mono-chromatic norm regarding Nordic / Danish women’s urban (summer) dress. To what extent are fashion norms influencing and interacting with other social and societal norms including, what has in the Western world long been called legal norms – most often understood as state produced norms.