Fashion in American Life

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvHazel Clark,Lauren Downing Peters,USA) Clark, Dr Hazel (Parsons School of Design,USA) Downing Peters, Lauren (Columbia College Chicago,Lauren Downing Peters

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An original contribution to fashion studies, Fashion in American Life challenges existing approaches to fashion in America by considering who ‘makes’ fashion—when, where, and how. Avoiding the usual emphasis on the ‘history of fashion’ which perpetuates the myth of fashion designers, and New York, as the originators of American fashion, this exploration of the everyday allows us to see American fashion as a form of agency, self-identification, creative engagement, and politics.Moving away from the well-trodden accounts of fashion designers and the dominance of New York, much of the fashion uncovered has been under-represented in previous accounts. Through contemporary and historical research, authors challenge the nature of both ‘fashion’ and ‘America’ by addressing the many complexities of a nation whose people have diverse histories and cultures, including stories and experiences that have been forgotten, marginalized and left out of the fashion ‘canon’.Race, gender, ethnicity, and class are employed as critical lenses to shed new light on how fashion might be defined and addressed within America (as a country, but not as a series of United States), with case studies looking at First Nations, Latinx and African American dress. The intellectual framing of the volume, and the methods and case studies included, also present tactics that can be applied to other contexts, making this book about revisiting ‘fashion’ more widely, not just in America. Fashion in American Life makes a unique contribution to the literature of fashion studies, fashion history, cultural studies, and beyond.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-10-17
Mått160 x 238 x 20 mm
Vikt780 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350331938

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Hazel Clark is Professor of Design Studies and Fashion Studies, and currently Director of MA Fashion Studies, Parsons School of Design, New York. Her most recent books are Fashion and Everyday Life: London and New York (Bloomsbury, 2017) with Cheryl Buckley, and Fashion Curating (Bloomsbury, 2018) co-edited with Annamari Vänskä.Lauren Downing Peters is Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies and Director of the Fashion Study Collection at Columbia College Chicago. She is the author of Fashion Before Plus-Size: Bodies, Bias and the Birth of an Industry (Bloomsbury, 2023).

List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgments Introduction: Fashion in American LifeHazel Clark and Lauren Downing PetersSection One: Refashioning the EverydayIntroduction: Refashioning the EverydayHazel Clark and Lauren Downing Peters1 Sovereignty Every Day: Mobilizing Indigenous Fashion from the Northwest CoastLaura J. Allen2 Haoles in Hawaiian ShirtsAndrew Reilly3 “Smart Togs for Action”: Everyday Clothes for Rural Women in Texas in the 1950sRebecca Jumper Matheson4 Examining the Ordinary: Mourning Adornment and Black DeathRikki ByrdSection Two: Revisiting the EverydayIntroduction: Revisiting the EverydayHazel Clark and Lauren Downing Peters5 Rags: The Birth of Personal Style in PrintLaura McLaws Helms6 Playing Seminole Indian: The Cultural Appropriation of Seminole Men’s FashionAmanda Thompson7 Working from the Periphery: The National Association of Fashion and Accessories Designers (NAFAD) and the Promotion of Black FashionEinav Rabinovitch-Fox8 Primitivizing Accessories: ‘Slave Jewelry’ and the Construction of White Femininity in 1920s AmericaVictoria Rose PassSection Three: Recovering the EverydayIntroduction: Recovering the EverydayHazel Clark and Lauren Downing Peters9 Extra-ordinary Americans: Oral History, Workwear, and the U.S. Postal ServiceAlison Bazylinski, Lynn Heidelbaugh, and Rachel Lifter10 1970s Fashion and Women: Finding the Everyday at the Intersection of Image, Archive and Oral HistoryAlexis Romano11 Preserving the Latinx Sartorial Experience Through Digital ArchivesMichelle McVicker12 Self-Fashioning, Participatory Research, and the “Will to Adorn”Diana Baird N’DiayeIndex

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