Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (553 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226117995 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 294 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Library Journal Why do people dress the way they do? How does clothing contribute to a person's identity as a man or woman, as a white-collar professional or blue-collar worker, as a preppie, yuppie, or nerd? How is it that dress no longer denotes social class so much as lifestyle, whatever that is? Is haute couture defunct? Why may women wear pants and everything else men do, yet men may not wear skirts and everything else women do? Crane (sociology, Univ. While highly readable and thus accessible to the casual reader, this is a scholarly work intended mainly for an academic audience. . of Pennsylvania; The Transformation of the Avant-Garde) has written widely on the history and sociology of the arts, the news and entertainment media, fashion in clothing, and other material g
"A superbly written, scholarly survey of fashion history." according to Midwest Book Review. Clothes choices and fashion style often dictate the creation of the self and its image: but how? Crane offers a somewhat scholarly exploration of fashion trends from 19th century France to modern America, drawing important links between style and social change. This approach will interest not only art libraries, but schools offe. "My daughter the fashion queen" according to Mary. I bought this book for my daughter for Christmas. She requested it and has been getting lots of tips from it. She's studying to be a fashion buyer so the book came in handy. She loves it!. "A scan read" according to Gem. overly distracting language, which constantly repeats itself in several chapters. There are good points within the book it just takes a while to reach them!
It has long been said that clothes make the man (or woman), but is it still true today? If so, how has the information clothes convey changed over the years? Using a wide range of historical and contemporary materials, Diana Crane demonstrates how the social significance of clothing has been transformed.Crane compares nineteenth-century societies—France and the United States—where social class was the most salient aspect of social identity signified in clothing with late twentieth-century America, where lifestyle, gender, sexual orientation, age, and ethnicity are more meaningful to individuals in constructing their ward