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In the movie Grease, the Pink Ladies all wear matching pink jackets. But - as the movie makes clear - these are more than jackets. They’re what the anthropologists Mary Douglas and Baron Isherwood called a “bridge”. The Pink Lady jacket is a symbol, a symbol that connects each woman to others in the group.
There are lots of “bridges”. Red trousers and mu…
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