Theory of style
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Seeking scholarly and otherwise fascinating essays on costume history, especially ideas that made you re-think your understanding of fashion design, department store display, shopping, tailoring, the representation of clothes in history painting, material culture, theory of style, couture, etc
I have access to JStor, NY Times archive, and New Yorker archive. Online articles and essays preferred over books. Thanks!
I have access to JStor, NY Times archive, and New Yorker archive. Online articles and essays preferred over books. Thanks!
Seek out anything and everything by Valerie Steele. Even though this is an out-of-print book, it is fantastic: Dressed to Kill by Colin McDowell. This book has a memorable take on why men's fashions have changed over time to the narrow options available now.
posted by Kitty Stardust at 6:18 AM on December 19, 2012
posted by Kitty Stardust at 6:18 AM on December 19, 2012
Try this wonderful history of suits and masculinity ;masculinity
posted by melisande at 6:46 AM on December 19, 2012
posted by melisande at 6:46 AM on December 19, 2012
Mostly books rather than articles, I'm afraid, but here are the works that have done most for me in changing my understanding of Renaissance costume and portraiture:
Ulinka Rublack, Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe (Guardian review here)
John Harvey, Men in Black (Frieze review here)
Joaneath Spicer, 'The Renaissance Elbow', in Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg (eds), A Cultural History of Gesture (History Today review here)
Valentin Groebner, 'Inside Out: Clothes, Dissimulation, and the Arts of Accounting in the Autobiography of Matthaus Schwarz, 1496-1574', Representations, 66 (1999) (available on JSTOR here)
posted by verstegan at 6:46 AM on December 19, 2012 [1 favorite]
Ulinka Rublack, Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe (Guardian review here)
John Harvey, Men in Black (Frieze review here)
Joaneath Spicer, 'The Renaissance Elbow', in Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg (eds), A Cultural History of Gesture (History Today review here)
Valentin Groebner, 'Inside Out: Clothes, Dissimulation, and the Arts of Accounting in the Autobiography of Matthaus Schwarz, 1496-1574', Representations, 66 (1999) (available on JSTOR here)
posted by verstegan at 6:46 AM on December 19, 2012 [1 favorite]
Gah - messed up the link - what I wanted to recommend was David Kuchta's "Three piece suit and modern masculinity" http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Three_Piece_Suit_and_Modern_Masculin.html?id=DOocnJiWUR4C&redir_esc=y
posted by melisande at 6:50 AM on December 19, 2012
posted by melisande at 6:50 AM on December 19, 2012
Thomas Frank's The Conquest of Cool is a fascinating examination of the symbiotic relationship between 60s counterculture and the advertising industry.
posted by werkzeuger at 7:18 AM on December 19, 2012
posted by werkzeuger at 7:18 AM on December 19, 2012
I should add that it does this by looking extensively at the menswear industry and its "peacock revolution."
posted by werkzeuger at 7:19 AM on December 19, 2012
posted by werkzeuger at 7:19 AM on December 19, 2012
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