The Dressed Society - Clothing, the Body and Some Meanings of the World - Paperback - 2008

This exhaustive book demonstrates how dress shapes and is shaped by social processes and phenomena such as beauty, time, the body, the gift exchange, class, gender, and religion. It does this through an analysis of topics like the Islamic clothing controversy in state schools, the multitude of identities associated with dress, the Dress Reform movement, the construction of the body in fashion magazines, and the role of the internet in fashion. What emerges is a trenchant, sharply observed account of the place of dress in contemporary society.


Year of publication: 2008
Pagination: 208 pages, black white illustrations, black white tables, figures
Format: Paperback
Serie: Published in Association with Theory, Culture Society