The men's fashion reader
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The men's fashion reader
Berg, 2009
- : pbk
- : cloth
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All Berg titles are published Bloomsbury Academic, London (imprint of Bloomsbury Pub.) since 2013
Bibliography: p. [483]-514
Includes index
Contents of Works
- Introduction : The field of men's fashion
- Part I. A brief history of men's fashion
- From black in Spain to black in Shakespeare / John Harvey
- The three-piece suit / David Kuchta
- Macaroni masculinities / Peter McNeil
- Thomas Carlyle and Sartor Resartus / Michael Carter
- Dandyism, visual games, and the strategies of representation / Olga Vainshtein
- A tale of three Louis, ambiguity, masculinity, and the bow tie / Rob Shields
- Uniforms and the creation of ideal masculinity / Elisabeth Hackspiel- Mikosch
- Better and brighter clothes: the Men's Dress Reform Party, 1929-1940 / Barbara Burman
- Part II. Masculinity and sexuality: the making of fashionable men
- California casual: lifestyle marketing and men's leisure wear, 1930-1960 / William R. Scott
- 'Men don't wear velvet you know!': fashionable gay masculinity and the shopping experience, London, 1950-early 1970s / Clare Lomas
- Überman: masculinity, costume, and meaning in comic book superheroes / Vicki Karaminas
- The Italian job: football, fashion and that sarong / Stella Bruzzi
- From catwalk to catalogue: male fashion models, masculinity and identity / Joanne Entwistle
- The transvestite continuum: Liberace - Valentino - Elvis / Marjorie Garber
- Dragging it up and down: the glamorized male body / Mark Simpson
- Class, race and masculinity: the Mcdaddy, the Superfly, and the Rapper / Del LaGrace Volcano and Judith 'Jack' Halberstan
- Part III. Icons: the evolution of men's wear
- Heroes in wool / Anne Hollander
- The reinvention of tailoring / Michael Zakim
- The Japanese suit and modernity / Toby Slade
- Clothes and the modern man in 1930s Oxford / Laura Uglini
- A note: a charismatic art / Richard Martin
- Modern masculinity and the rise of school uniforms / Jennifer Craik
- Rancher and farmer dress in north central Texas: an ethnographic history / George A. Boeck, Jr.
- American denim: blue jeans and their multiple layers of meaning / Beverly Gordon
- Part IV. Subculture: style and resistance
- The zoot suit: its history and influence / Holly Alford
- Back to Africa: Reggae and Rastafarianism / Dick Hebdige
- Cultural responses of the Teds / Tony Jefferson
- Rock, fashion and perfomativity / Noel McLaughlin
- The Warhol look / Mark Francis and Margery King
- 'Macho man': clone and the development of a masculine stereotype / Shawn Cole
- Part V. Consuming and creative style
- Fashion and the man: from suburb to city street / Christopher Breward
- Fashioning the playboy: messages of style and masculinity in the pages of Playboy magazine, 1953-1963 / Becky Conekin
- 'It was style with a capital "S". Versions of being male presented at the beautillion ball / Annette Lynch
- New men and new markets / Frank Mort
- Consuming masculinities: style, content and men's magazines / Tim Edwards