In the first in-depth historical survey of the plus-size fashion industry, Lauren Downing Peters reveals how the fashion industry perpetuates and materializes fat stigma through design discourse.
In the first in-depth historical survey of the plus-size fashion industry, Lauren Downing Peters reveals how the fashion industry perpetuates and materializes fat stigma through design discourse.
Lauren Downing Peters is Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies and Director of the Fashion Study Collection at Columbia College Chicago. Her interdisciplinary research broadly explores the entanglements of dress, the body, and identity; histories of American fashion and style; and the past, present, and future of plus-size fashion.
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List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Fashion Before Plus-Size Re-fashioning Fat History The Slender Ideal, Fat Stigma & Weight Bias A History of Fashion Without Fashion A Note on Terminology Chapter Outline 1. Creating Consumers The New Normal Sizing Up Stoutness Beyond the "Perfect 36" The Problem With Fat 2. Designing for Disorder Building Better Bodies Modernist Fashions, Modernist Bodies Body-as-Canvas The Art & Science of Looking Slender 3. Fitting the Mind The Psychology of Selling Fat Bodies, Thin Skin Fat, Large or Stout? Small Advertisements for Large Sizes 4. Parables of Overweight The Parable of the Deluded The Parable of the Matron The Parable of the Domestic The Parable of the Style Blind 5. The Forgotten Woman The Everywoman: Jane Warren Wells The Vaudevillian: Sophie Tucker The Mother of the Blues: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey Conclusion Fashion's Slenderness Imperative A Provocation: Toward and Epistemology of "Fat Clothes" Notes Bibliography Index
List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Fashion Before Plus-Size Re-fashioning Fat History The Slender Ideal, Fat Stigma & Weight Bias A History of Fashion Without Fashion A Note on Terminology Chapter Outline 1. Creating Consumers The New Normal Sizing Up Stoutness Beyond the "Perfect 36" The Problem With Fat 2. Designing for Disorder Building Better Bodies Modernist Fashions, Modernist Bodies Body-as-Canvas The Art & Science of Looking Slender 3. Fitting the Mind The Psychology of Selling Fat Bodies, Thin Skin Fat, Large or Stout? Small Advertisements for Large Sizes 4. Parables of Overweight The Parable of the Deluded The Parable of the Matron The Parable of the Domestic The Parable of the Style Blind 5. The Forgotten Woman The Everywoman: Jane Warren Wells The Vaudevillian: Sophie Tucker The Mother of the Blues: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey Conclusion Fashion's Slenderness Imperative A Provocation: Toward and Epistemology of "Fat Clothes" Notes Bibliography Index
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