Ruth Rubinstein, Ruth Rubenstein

Dress Codes

Meanings And Messages In American Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Clothing and fashion form images used by society to organize itself, maintain social order, and integrate social change. These images emanate from the "collective memory," a vocabulary of images accumulated since the ancient past.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 711g
• ISBN-13: 9780367098483
• ISBN-10: 0367098482
• Artikelnr.: 57496718

Autorenporträt

Ruth Rubinstein

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Dress in Societal Discourse
Nineteenth-Century Theories of Clothing
Characteristics of Modern Social Discourse
New Institutional Patterns of Discourse
Dressing the Public Self
Clothing Signs and Social Imperatives
The Image of Power
The Image of Authority
Gender Images
Seductive Images
Clothing Symbols and Cultural Values
Wealth and Beauty in the Middle Ages
Leisure and Political Hierarchy
Commerce and Fashion
Beauty As Perfection of Physical Form
The Youth Ideal
The Health Ideal
Publicspeak
Clothing Tie-Signs
Clothing Tie-Symbols
The Presidency and Contemporary Fashion
The Personal Self
Conclusion