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Situating the Dressed Body in the Social World
Dress lies at the margins of the body and marks the boundary between self and other, individual and society. This…
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Fashion, Identification and Emergent Socialites
According to Maffesoli (1988, 1991, 1996), we are currently witnessing a resurgence of basic forms of community, a move away…
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Manliness, Modernity and the Shaping of Male Clothing
At the turn of the nineteenth century writers in the trade press for the men’s garment industries found themselves caught…
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Embodying the Single Girl in the 1960s
The dominant position in feminist studies exemplified by scholars such as Susan Bordo (1997) claims that consumer culture oppresses women…
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The Educational Culture of the Athenians
If one were to apply modernist terminology, one would say that education in ancient Athens, but for certain extenuating circumstances,…
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Easy-fitting dresses and tops
Select the ‘flat’ body block or the ‘flat’ shirt block for the kimono adaptation (depends on fit required). Extend to…
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Approaching Fashion and Consumption
Perhaps the most influential approach towards the study of fashion within the social sciences has been that associated with writers…
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The city and the spaces of fashion culture
This is the greeting given to telephone callers to Diesel Industries HQ in Molvena, Italy. Diesel makes no secret of…
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Reviewing food fashions and the case against ingestion
Peering into other people’s food trolleys is a voyeuristic game we can all play when queuing at the checkout (as…
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Organizing consumption and production
Branding is not simply a collection of new business tools or a mere reflection of cultural change in society at…
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