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A Sociological View of Fashion

Author : Shirley Hawkins
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book A Sociological View of Fashion written by Shirley Hawkins and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion is designed for the body: it is created, promoted and worn by the body. Fashion is aimed at the body and the latter is the one that has to be dressed in almost all social gatherings. In the West, and increasingly outside it as well, fashion structures most of our experience of dressing, although, as I argue in this book, it is not the only factor that influences everyday life, since other factors, such as gender, social class, income and tradition, also influence. The fashionable dress is one that embodies the latest aesthetic trend; it is the garment defined at a given moment as desirable, beautiful and popular. By manifesting the latest aesthetic trend and by making certain types of garments available to the public, fashion provides the "raw material" for everyday clothing, manufactured by a multitude of entities operating in a variety of locations. To understand fashion, one needs to understand the relationship between the various agencies that operate within the fashion system: technical fashion schools and their students, designers and design firms, tailors and seamstresses, models and photographers, as well as publishers, distributors, retailers, shoppers, stores and consumers. In other words, studying fashion implies going from production to distribution and consumption: without the innumerable seamstresses and tailors there would be no garments to consume; Without the promotion of fashion by cultural intermediaries, such as fashion journalists, "fashion" in its function of marking the latest style would not go very far; and without consumer acceptance, fashion suits would be left hanging in factories, in shops and in closets. Thus, when we speak of fashion, we are simultaneously referring to a series of interconnected and overlapping organizations involved in the production and promotion of clothing, as well as in the actions of people acting on their bodies when they "dress".

The Psychology of Fashion

Author : Carolyn Mair
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317217624
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book The Psychology of Fashion written by Carolyn Mair and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Psychology of Fashion offers an insightful introduction to the exciting and dynamic world of fashion in relation to human behaviour, from how clothing can affect our cognitive processes to the way retail environments manipulate consumer behaviour. The book explores how fashion design can impact healthy body image, how psychology can inform a more sustainable perspective on the production and disposal of clothing, and why we develop certain shopping behaviours. With fashion imagery ever present in the streets, press and media, The Psychology of Fashion shows how fashion and psychology can make a positive difference to our lives.

The Fashioned Body

Author : Joanne Entwistle
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509547908
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Fashioned Body written by Joanne Entwistle and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original overview of fashion and dress from an historical and sociological perspective. Where once fashion was seen as marginal, it has now entered into core economic discourse focused around ideas about 'cultural' and 'creative' work as a major driver of developed economies. This third edition of The Fashioned Body, the most comprehensive revision to date, revisits the classic works on fashion, dress and the body, and introduces contemporary issues and debates in the area. With new sections and revisions to all chapters, the major updates pick up on recent debates on fashion from the perspective of decolonising the curriculum, diversity, queer studies, sustainability, the environment, and digital fashion. A newly expanded bibliography of contemporary studies of fashion and dress is also included. The book continues to show how an understanding of fashion and dress requires analysing the meanings and practices of the dressed body in culture. Moreover, its central premise – that fashion is a 'situated practice' articulated through everyday dressed bodies – has become established orthodoxy within fashion studies since publication of the first edition in 2000. Remaining a seminal text in the field, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the social role of fashion and dress in modern culture.

The Restless Image

Author : René König
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Restless Image written by René König and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of a king and his magician in Egypt 4500 years ago is accompanied by commentary on the life of the time and on the ancient Egyptian writing called hieroglyphs.

The Fashioned Body

Author : Joanne Entwistle
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745689396
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Fashioned Body written by Joanne Entwistle and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original overview of fashion and dress from an historical and sociological perspective. Where once fashion was seen as marginal, it has now entered into core economic discourse focused around ideas about ‘cultural’ and ‘creative’ work as a major driver of developed economies. With a new preface and new material on the evolving fashion industry, this second edition gives a clear summary of the theories surrounding the role and function of fashion in modern society. Entwistle examines how fashion plays a crucial role in the formation of modern identity through its articulation of the body, gender and sexuality. The book offers a much needed synthesis between the literature on fashion and dress, and the sociology of the body, offering an updated critique of the issues raised in the first edition. Entwistle shows how an understanding of fashion and dress requires an understanding of the meanings acquired by the body in culture since it is the body that fashion speaks to and which is dressed in almost all social situations and encounters. She argues that while fashion refers to a specific system of dress originating in the west, all cultures ‘dress’ the body in the same way, making it a crucial feature of social order. Drawing on the work of theorists, the book offers insights into the connections that need to be made between the body, fashion and dress. The Fashioned Body will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the social role of fashion and dress in modern culture.

The Restless Image

Author : René König
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book The Restless Image written by René König and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fashion Theory

Author : Malcolm Barnard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135190003
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Fashion Theory written by Malcolm Barnard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Books that explain and analyse the nature, production and consumption of fashion are very fashionable at present. Fashion is explained in terms of the body, or fetish, or gender or culture. Slightly less fashionable, it seems, are introductory books on the theories of fashion. All explanations and analyses of fashion presupposed at least one theory (of gender, or class, for example) and all apply some theory to the material they cover, but few take the time to explain those theories. This introduction to fashion theory surveys and contextualises the ways in which a wide range of disciplines (including sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, fashion history, gender studies and cultural history) have used different theoretical approaches to explain, and sometimes to explain away, the astonishing variety, complexity and beauty of fashion. Themes covered include individual, social and gender identity, clothes and the body, the erotic, consumption and communication. This introduction looks at some of the most influential and important theories on fashion bringing to light the presuppositions involved in the things we think and say about fashion."--

Pricing Beauty

Author : Ashley Mears
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520950216
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Pricing Beauty written by Ashley Mears and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociologist Ashley Mears takes us behind the brightly lit runways and glossy advertisements of the fashion industry in this insider’s study of the world of modeling. Mears, who worked as a model in New York and London, draws on observations as well as extensive interviews with male and female models, agents, clients, photographers, stylists, and others, to explore the economics and politics—and the arbitrariness— behind the business of glamour. Exploring a largely hidden arena of cultural production, she shows how the right "look" is discovered, developed, and packaged to become a prized commodity. She examines how models sell themselves, how agents promote them, and how clients decide to hire them. An original contribution to the sociology of work in the new cultural economy, Pricing Beauty offers rich, accessible analysis of the invisible ways in which gender, race, and class shape worth in the marketplace.

Everyday Sociology Reader

Author : Karen Sternheimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780393419481
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Sociology Reader written by Karen Sternheimer and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative readings and blog posts show how sociology can help us understand everyday life.

Fashion and Its Social Agendas

Author : Diana Crane
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226924831
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Fashion and Its Social Agendas written by Diana Crane and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 wardrobes. Today, clothes worn at work signify social class, but leisure clothes convey meanings ranging from trite to political. In today's multicode societies, clothes inhibit as well as facilitate communication between highly fragmented social groups. Crane extends her comparison by showing how nineteenth-century French designers created fashions that suited lifestyles of Paris elites but that were also widely adopted outside France. By contrast, today's designers operate in a global marketplace, shaped by television, film, and popular music. No longer confined to elites, trendsetters are drawn from many social groups, and most trends have short trajectories. To assess the impact of fashion on women, Crane uses voices of college-aged and middle-aged women who took part in focus groups. These discussions yield fascinating information about women's perceptions of female identity and sexuality in the fashion industry. An absorbing work, Fashion and Its Social Agendas stands out as a critical study of gender, fashion, and consumer culture. "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? . . . Intelligent and informative, [this] book proposes thoughtful answers to some of these questions."-Library Journal

Fashion-ology

Author : Yuniya Kawamura
Publisher : Berg
ISBN 13 : 1847886078
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Fashion-ology written by Yuniya Kawamura and published by Berg. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a concise and much-needed introduction to the sociology of fashion. Most studies of fashion do not make a clear distinction between clothing and fashion. Kawamura argues that clothing is a tangible material product whereas fashion is a symbolic cultural product. She debunks the myth of the genius designer and explains, provocatively, that fashion is not about clothes but is a belief. There is an institutional structure, ignored by many fashion theorists, that has shaped and produced the fashion phenomenon. Kawamura further shows how the structural nature of the fashion system works to legitimize designers creativity and can make them successful. Newer fashion cities, such as Milan and New York, are the product of the fashion system that originated in Paris. Without that systemic structure, fashion culture would not exist. Fashion-ology provides a big picture approach that focuses on the social process behind fashion and its perpetuation.

Classical Sociological Theory

Author : George Ritzer
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1544354851
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Classical Sociological Theory written by George Ritzer and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. Classical Sociological Theory, Eighth Edition, provides a comprehensive overview of the major theorists and schools of sociological thought from the Enlightenment roots of theory through the early 20th century. The integration of key theories with biographical sketches of theorists and the requisite historical and intellectual context helps students to better understand the original works of classical authors as well as to compare and contrast classical theories.

Sociological Theory in the Classical Era

Author : Laura Desfor Edles
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483300994
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Sociological Theory in the Classical Era written by Laura Desfor Edles and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trained at UCLA and at NYU respectively, Laura Desfor Edles and Scott Appelrouth were frustrated by their inability to find a sociological theory text that could inspire enthusiasm in undergraduate students while providing them with analytical tools for understanding theory and exposing them to original writings from pivotal theorists. They developed this widely used text/reader to fill that need. Sociological Theory in the Classical Era introduces students to original major writings from sociology's key classical theorists. It also provides a thorough framework for understanding these challenging readings. For each theorist, the authors give a biographical sketch, discuss intellectual influences and core ideas, and offer contemporary examples and applications of those ideas. Introductions to every reading provide additional background on their structure and significance. This book also makes frequent use of photos, diagrams, tables, and charts to help illustrate important concepts.

Fashion, Culture, and Identity

Author : Fred Davis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226138091
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Fashion, Culture, and Identity written by Fred Davis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on interviews with designers and fashion editors, Davis shows, in this provocative look at what we do with our clothes, how our ambivalent world reveals itself through fashion. He sets out to answer questions such as 'what do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are?', and 'how does the way we dress communicate messages about our identities?', and demonstrates that much of what we assume to be individual preference really reflects deeper social and cultural forces, characterised by tensions over gender roles, social status and the expression of sexuality.

Fashion-ology

Author : Yuniya Kawamura
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474278493
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Fashion-ology written by Yuniya Kawamura and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of a classic work offers a concise introduction to the sociology of fashion, and demystifies the workings of the fashion system. From the origins of fashion studies and the difference between clothing and fashion, through to an examination of 21st century subcultures, and the impact of the digital age on designers, Fashion-ology explores fashion as a global, social construct. With accessible overviews of key debates, issues and perspectives, the book provides a complete exploration of the field, and features a wide range of international case studies which bring the theory to life. Updated with two new chapters on subcultures and the impact of technology, along with guides to further reading and a student guide to sociological research in fashion, this is essential reading for anyone studying fashion, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies.

Newspaper Fashion Editors in the 1950s and 60s

Author : Kimberly Wilmot Voss
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030736245
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Newspaper Fashion Editors in the 1950s and 60s written by Kimberly Wilmot Voss and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the careers of newspaper fashion editors and details what the fashion sections included in the post-World War II years. The analysis covers social, political and economic aspects of fashion. It also addresses journalism ethics, fashion show reporting and the decline in fashion journalism editor positions.

Subculture

Author : Dick Hebdige
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136494804
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Subculture written by Dick Hebdige and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. It is much less easy to grasp the fact that such change will inevitably affect the nature of those disciplines that both reflect our society and help to shape it. Yet this is nowhere more apparent than in the central field of what may, in general terms, be called literary studies. ‘New Accents’ is intended as a positive response to the initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change. To stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study.