Dressed to impress [electronic resource] : looking the part /

Dressed to impress looking the part / [electronic resource] : edited by William J.F. Keenan ; foreword by David Martin. - Oxford : Berg, 2001. - xv, 236 p. : ill. - Dress, body, culture . - Dress, body, culture. .

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Clothing and dress--Social aspects.
Identity (Psychology)
Choice (Psychology)


Electronic books.

GT525 / .D74 2001eb

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