Fashioning Identity : Status Ambivalence in Contemporary Fashion.
Mackinney-Valentin, Maria.
Fashioning Identity : Status Ambivalence in Contemporary Fashion. - 1 online resource (221 pages) - Dress and Fashion Research Ser. . - Dress and Fashion Research Ser. .
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Status Ambivalence and Fashion Flows -- Politics of appearance -- Dressing the part -- Sartorial dialectic of identity -- Fashion flows -- Vertical flow -- Horizontal flow -- Upward flow -- Scattered flow -- Fashioning identity -- Chapter outlines -- 2 Yesterday's Tomorrow: Fashion and Time -- The ambiguous now -- Between dowdy and hideous -- Style revivals -- Old fashion -- Forever after -- 3 Perfectly Wrong -- Taxonomy of age -- Corporeal patina -- Logic of wrong -- Senior moment -- Staged ageing -- Age ambiguity -- Conspicuous poverty -- Radical permanence -- 4 Copy Chic and the Ambivalent Original -- Modes of copying -- Fashion IPR -- 'Tis the season -- The Chinatown tote -- Copy chic? -- 5 Sartorial Shrugs and Other Fashion Understatements -- Sartorial shrugs -- Inconspicuous consumption -- Fashionable displays of the ordinary -- Deliberate lagging -- Staged casualness -- The fashion nun -- Biological capital -- Fashioned bodies -- Raw beauty -- Lazy chic -- Identity assemblage -- 6 Not So Fast Fashion: the New Perseverance -- The new speed of fashion? -- Gradual change -- Spot on -- Forever new -- Beyond saturation? -- Fashionable implications -- 7 The Devil's Playground: Fashion and Subcultural Identity -- Metal visual culture -- The T-shirt -- Fashion and subculture -- Subcultural persistence -- The band T-shirt -- Copenhellsters vs. Copenhipsters -- Mass-niche -- Multigenerational subcultures -- Humor and inverted snobbery -- Next step for fashioning subcultural identity -- 8 Trans-global Narratives -- "B" is for ball -- Soccer history -- Cultural exchange -- World dress -- The soccer jersey as fashion -- Fashioning goals -- "Welcome to our club" -- Transnational fandom -- Individualization. Cultural ambivalence -- 9 Fashioning Zeitgeist -- Fashion as a mirror -- Low-calorie realism -- Warp and weft -- The great outdoors -- Blue collar chic -- Gender and sexuality -- Is there a "right" zeitgeist? -- Afterword -- References -- Index -- Copyright Page.
9781474249119
Electronic books.
746.92
Fashioning Identity : Status Ambivalence in Contemporary Fashion. - 1 online resource (221 pages) - Dress and Fashion Research Ser. . - Dress and Fashion Research Ser. .
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Status Ambivalence and Fashion Flows -- Politics of appearance -- Dressing the part -- Sartorial dialectic of identity -- Fashion flows -- Vertical flow -- Horizontal flow -- Upward flow -- Scattered flow -- Fashioning identity -- Chapter outlines -- 2 Yesterday's Tomorrow: Fashion and Time -- The ambiguous now -- Between dowdy and hideous -- Style revivals -- Old fashion -- Forever after -- 3 Perfectly Wrong -- Taxonomy of age -- Corporeal patina -- Logic of wrong -- Senior moment -- Staged ageing -- Age ambiguity -- Conspicuous poverty -- Radical permanence -- 4 Copy Chic and the Ambivalent Original -- Modes of copying -- Fashion IPR -- 'Tis the season -- The Chinatown tote -- Copy chic? -- 5 Sartorial Shrugs and Other Fashion Understatements -- Sartorial shrugs -- Inconspicuous consumption -- Fashionable displays of the ordinary -- Deliberate lagging -- Staged casualness -- The fashion nun -- Biological capital -- Fashioned bodies -- Raw beauty -- Lazy chic -- Identity assemblage -- 6 Not So Fast Fashion: the New Perseverance -- The new speed of fashion? -- Gradual change -- Spot on -- Forever new -- Beyond saturation? -- Fashionable implications -- 7 The Devil's Playground: Fashion and Subcultural Identity -- Metal visual culture -- The T-shirt -- Fashion and subculture -- Subcultural persistence -- The band T-shirt -- Copenhellsters vs. Copenhipsters -- Mass-niche -- Multigenerational subcultures -- Humor and inverted snobbery -- Next step for fashioning subcultural identity -- 8 Trans-global Narratives -- "B" is for ball -- Soccer history -- Cultural exchange -- World dress -- The soccer jersey as fashion -- Fashioning goals -- "Welcome to our club" -- Transnational fandom -- Individualization. Cultural ambivalence -- 9 Fashioning Zeitgeist -- Fashion as a mirror -- Low-calorie realism -- Warp and weft -- The great outdoors -- Blue collar chic -- Gender and sexuality -- Is there a "right" zeitgeist? -- Afterword -- References -- Index -- Copyright Page.
9781474249119
Electronic books.
746.92