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FASHION SITES AND ONLINE MAGAZINES
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FURTHER REFERENCE
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
[Few topics on
popular culture can be adequately researched on the web alone. These
reading suggestions are designed as beginning points for further offline
study.]
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Barthes, Roland. The Fashion System. London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. |
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Classic, complicated study of how the world of high fashion
industry uses “fabric texts” and words to create an
abstract world of fashionableness that must at once always change
and always stay the same. |
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Bruzzi Stella, and, Patricia Church Gibson, eds. Fashion Cultures: Theories,
Explorations, and Analysis. London; New York: Routledge, 2000. |
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Excellent collection of essays on all aspects of the social meanings of fashion. Gives a fine sense of the range of approaches currently used to study the cultural functions of fashion in many different contexts. |
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Craik, Jennifer. The Face of Fashion: Cultural Studies in
Fashion. London; New York: Routledge, 1993. |
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Provides an excellent overview of a cultural studies approach
to the meanings of fashion. |
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Crane, Diana. Fashion and Its Social Agendas:
Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. |
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From 19th century France to modern America, traces how fashion has shaped and been shaped by changes in class, and gender relations. |
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Entwistle, Joanne. The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress, and Modern
Social Theory. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000. |
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Rich study of historical and contemporary fashion, and the ways that fashion constructs identity. |
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Malossi, Giannino, ed. Material Man: Masculinity, Sexuality,
Style. New York: H.N. Abrams, 2000. |
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Wide-ranging collection of essays on the cultural meanings of men's dress across history, cultures, class, and race. |
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Ross, Andrew. No Sweat: Fashion, Free Trade and the
Rights of Garment Workers. New York: Verso, 1997. |
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Excellent collection of articles on the exploitation often involved in the production of high and popular fashion. |
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