American students put much more emphasis on comfort than on presentation, an overall trend in American dress.
In our current day, this statement is extremely accurate. However, When you look at school's back in the early 1900's, you find that there was a strict dress code in most cases. This arises the question of how did our culture evolve to our current social norm of looking less presentable when going to school?
Though they conduct research on vastly different topics, all three are anthropologists.
I always thought anthropology was only about the evolution of humans and cultures. Which is a very limited definition. Going along with that, I find it very interesting that there is research regarding smartphones among different countries and how it affects their culture. This timely research proves that anthropology is a broad study that can never be dated or out grown.