Description
Book SynopsisHow garments—signaling and altering identity—circulate through culture and the economy
Table of ContentsContents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Clothing, Dress, Fashion: An Arcade
Introduction. Walking the Walk: Circulation and Exchange
Paula Rabinowitz
1. Accessory Questions
Laura Montani
2. Krizia and Accessories
Mariuccia Mandelli
3. The Dress of Thought: Clothing and Nudity in Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Ariosto
Anne Hollander
4. Orbits of Power: Rings in James Merrill’s Poetry
Andrea Mariani
5. Sheer Luxury: Kate Chopin’s “A Pair of Silk Stockings”
Cristina Giorcelli
6. Traveling Light: Nellie Bly’s All-Inclusive Bag
Cristina Scatamacchia
7. Like Their First Pair of High Heel Shoes: Continental Accessories and Audrey Hepburn’s Cinematic Coming of Age
Alisia Grace Chase
8. Word-Processed for You by a Professional Seamstress
Karen Reimer
9. Slips of the Tongue: Lesbian Pulp Fiction as How-to-Dress Manuals
Paula Rabinowitz
10. A Safety Pin for Elizabeth: Hard-Edge Accessorizing from Punk Subculture to High Fashion
Vittoria C. Caratozzolo
11. A Knot to Untie: Social Power, Fetishism, and Communication in the Social History of the Tie
Nello Barile
12. Ornaments and Feminine Clothing Tradition in Algeria; or the Identity Quest
Chafika Dib-Marouf
13. It Is a Garage Sale at Savers Every Day: An Ethnography of the Savers Thrift Department Store in Minneapolis
Katalin Medvedev
Coda: Speaking Out and Speaking Up: The Circulating Power of Fashion
Cristina Giorcelli
Contributors
