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27 - Fashion and Non-Fashion Cultures

from Part IV - Fashion, Modernism, and Modernity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2023

By
Sophie Woodward
Edited by
Christopher Breward ,
Beverly Lemire  and
Giorgio Riello
Christopher Breward
Affiliation:
National Museums Scotland
Beverly Lemire
Affiliation:
University of Alberta
Giorgio Riello
Affiliation:
European University Institute, Florence
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Summary

The term ‘fashion cultures’ invites consideration of how dress is both a form of differentiation and also a way of seeking commonalities. Fashion may be an explicit medium through which people form connections to others or reject them in the articulation of shared ‘anti-fashion’-style groupings. This chapter will consider how fashioning is a material process through which individuals construct shared (and individual) styles in relation to each other, in specific cultural contexts. There are many academic approaches to fashion which coexist with everyday understandings of what fashion is from the perspective of clothes wearers; in this chapter I unpack some of the complexities and ambiguities within shared clothing cultures that emerge from everyday wearers’ understandings of fashion and the impact upon fashion practices.

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The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
From the Nineteenth Century to the Present
 , pp. 969 - 993
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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