Dressed to impress [electronic resource] : looking the part / edited by William J.F. Keenan ; foreword by David Martin.

Contributor(s): Series: Dress, body, culturePublication details: Oxford : Berg, 2001.Description: xv, 236 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GT525 .D74 2001eb
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Contents:
Introduction : Sartor Resartus restored : dress studies in Carlylean perspective -- A comparative exploration of dress and the presentation of self as implicit religion -- An 'informalizing spurt' in clothing regimes : court ballet in the civilizing process -- Land of hip and glory : fashioning the 'classic' national body -- Multiple meanings of the Hijab in contemporary France -- Gestus manifests Habitus : dress and the Mormon -- Vampires and goths : fandom, gender and cult dress -- The fall and rise of erotic lingerie -- Dress freedom : the personal and the political.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : Sartor Resartus restored : dress studies in Carlylean perspective -- A comparative exploration of dress and the presentation of self as implicit religion -- An 'informalizing spurt' in clothing regimes : court ballet in the civilizing process -- Land of hip and glory : fashioning the 'classic' national body -- Multiple meanings of the Hijab in contemporary France -- Gestus manifests Habitus : dress and the Mormon -- Vampires and goths : fandom, gender and cult dress -- The fall and rise of erotic lingerie -- Dress freedom : the personal and the political.

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