The Resource Fashion, culture, and identity, Fred Davis
Fashion, culture, and identity, Fred Davis
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- Summary
- What do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our identity? Is the desire to be "in fashion" universal or unique to Western culture? How do fashions change? These are just a few of the intriguing questions Fred Davis sets out to answer in this provocative look at what we do with our clothes and what they can do to us. Drawing on interviews with designers and fashion editors, Davis examines the workings of the fashion industry. He charts the rise and fall of a range of clothing styles, from "the little black dress" to the tuxedo and blue jeans. In fashion's cycle of invention to obsolescence, fashion succeeds or fails by its ability to respond to a complex and usually unpredictable cultural marketplace. Much of what we assume to be individual preferences, Davis shows, really reflect deeper social and cultural forces. Ours is an ambivalent social world, characterized by tensions over gender roles, social status, and the expression of sexuality. Predicting what people will wear becomes a risky gamble when the link between private self and public persona can be so unstable. Filled with sharply detailed portraits of the business and culture of fashion, this book will enlighten anyone interested in the important and complex role clothing plays in our lives
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 226 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780226138084
- Label
- Fashion, culture, and identity
- Title
- Fashion, culture, and identity
- Statement of responsibility
- Fred Davis
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- What do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our identity? Is the desire to be "in fashion" universal or unique to Western culture? How do fashions change? These are just a few of the intriguing questions Fred Davis sets out to answer in this provocative look at what we do with our clothes and what they can do to us. Drawing on interviews with designers and fashion editors, Davis examines the workings of the fashion industry. He charts the rise and fall of a range of clothing styles, from "the little black dress" to the tuxedo and blue jeans. In fashion's cycle of invention to obsolescence, fashion succeeds or fails by its ability to respond to a complex and usually unpredictable cultural marketplace. Much of what we assume to be individual preferences, Davis shows, really reflect deeper social and cultural forces. Ours is an ambivalent social world, characterized by tensions over gender roles, social status, and the expression of sexuality. Predicting what people will wear becomes a risky gamble when the link between private self and public persona can be so unstable. Filled with sharply detailed portraits of the business and culture of fashion, this book will enlighten anyone interested in the important and complex role clothing plays in our lives
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1925-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Davis, Fred
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- GT525
- LC item number
- .D38 1992
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Clothing and dress
- Fashion
- Gender identity
- Group identity
- Clothing and dress
- Fashion
- Gender identity
- Group identity
- Label
- Fashion, culture, and identity, Fred Davis
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 24952156
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xi, 226 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226138084
- Lccn
- 91044012
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)24952156
- Label
- Fashion, culture, and identity, Fred Davis
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 24952156
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xi, 226 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226138084
- Lccn
- 91044012
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)24952156
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