Overview

Aside from the occasional nod to epaulets or use of camouflage, war and fashion seem to be strange partners. Not so, argue the contributors to this book, who connect military industrial practices as well as military dress to textile and clothing in new ways. For instance, the book includes a series of commentaries on the impact of military dress in the airline industry, in illustrated wartime comics, and even considers today's muscled soldier's body as a new type of uniform. Elsewhere, the impacts of conquest introduce a new set of postcolonial aesthetics; this is because military and colonial regimes disrupted local textile production and garment making. In another chapter, it is argued that textiles and fashion are important because they reflect a core practice, one that bridges textile artists and designers in an expressive, creative, and deeply physical way to matters of cultural significance. And the book concludes by calling the very mode of ""military chic"" into ethical question. The premier text to illustrate the impact of war on textiles, bodies, costume, art, and design,Fashion and War in Popular Culturewill be warmly welcomed by scholars of fashion design and theory, historians of fashion, and those interested in theories of warfare and military science.

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Author:   Denise N Rall
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.322kg
ISBN:  

9781841507514

ISBN 10:   1841507512
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   15 March 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction  Contextualizing fashion and war within popular culture – Jennifer Craik Overview – Denise N. Rall Section I: The military in popular culture  Chapter 1: Representation of female wartime bravery in Australia’s Wanda the War Girl and Jane at War from the UK – Jane Chapman Chapter 2: Fashionable fascism: Cinematic images of the Nazi before and after 9/11 – Kylee M. Hartman-Warren Chapter 3: Branding the muscled male body as military costume – Heather Smith and Richard Gehrmann Section II: Fashion and the military Chapter 4: In the service of clothes: Elsa Schiaparelli and the war experience – Annita Boyd Chapter 5: The discipline of appearance: Military style and Australian flight hostess uniforms 1930–1964 – Prudence Black Chapter 6: Models, medals, and the use of military emblems in fashion – Amanda Laugesen Section III: Framing youth fashion, textile artworks and postcolonial costume in the context of conflict Chapter 7: Battle dressed – clothing the criminal, or the horror of the ‘hoodie’ in Britain – Joanne Turney Chapter 8: Dutch wax and display: London and the art of Yinka Shonibare – Davinia Gregory Chapter 9: Costume and conquest: Introducing a proximity framework for post-war impacts on textile and fashion – Denise N. Rall Afterword: The military in contemporary fashion – Denise N. Rall

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Denise N. Rall is an adjunct lecturer at the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University in Australia.

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