The Emperor’s clothes are corporate social services whose character is concealed by their way of involving everybody, thus making themselves invisible. Such “corporate clothing” is familiar in phrases such as “the King’s highway,” “the King’s English,” “the King’s justice,” “the King’s pess,” etc. These corporate clothes, or social vestitutres, are vast environmental weaponry such as enlists the total social energy of a whole population.
“International Motley and Religious Costume” (1972), p 2
Year: 1972
Chapter:
Clothing and Nakedness
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan