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A consideration of the role of clothes in establishing personality, and the influence and significance of changing fashion as a social and cultural phenomenon.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 1: Do Clothes Speak? What Makes Them Fashion? 2: Identity Ambivalence, Fashion's Fuel 3: Ambivalences of Gender: Boys Will Be Boys, Girls Will Be Boys 4: Ambivalences of Status: Flaunts and Feints 5: Ambivalences of Sexuality: The Dialectic of the Erotic and the Chaste 6: Fashion as Cycle, Fashion as Process 7: Stages of the Fashion Process 8: Antifashion: The Vicissitudes of Negation 9: Conclusion, and Some Afterthoughts References Index

Fashion Culture and Identity

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/09/1994
      ISBN13: 9780226138091, 978-0226138091
      ISBN10: 0226138097
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A consideration of the role of clothes in establishing personality, and the influence and significance of changing fashion as a social and cultural phenomenon.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments 1: Do Clothes Speak? What Makes Them Fashion? 2: Identity Ambivalence, Fashion's Fuel 3: Ambivalences of Gender: Boys Will Be Boys, Girls Will Be Boys 4: Ambivalences of Status: Flaunts and Feints 5: Ambivalences of Sexuality: The Dialectic of the Erotic and the Chaste 6: Fashion as Cycle, Fashion as Process 7: Stages of the Fashion Process 8: Antifashion: The Vicissitudes of Negation 9: Conclusion, and Some Afterthoughts References Index

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