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Author:   Dr Hazel Clark (Parsons School of Design, USA) ,  Lauren Downing Peters (Columbia College Chicago, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781350331938

ISBN 10:   1350331937
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   17 October 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Fashion in American Life Hazel Clark and Lauren Downing Peters Section One: Refashioning the Everyday Introduction: Refashioning the Everyday Hazel Clark and Lauren Downing Peters 1 Sovereignty Every Day: Mobilizing Indigenous Fashion from the Northwest Coast Laura J. Allen 2 Haoles in Hawaiian Shirts Andrew Reilly 3 “Smart Togs for Action”: Everyday Clothes for Rural Women in Texas in the 1950s Rebecca Jumper Matheson 4 Examining the Ordinary: Mourning Adornment and Black Death Rikki Byrd Section Two: Revisiting the Everyday Introduction: Revisiting the Everyday Hazel Clark and Lauren Downing Peters 5 Rags: The Birth of Personal Style in Print Laura McLaws Helms 6 Playing Seminole Indian: The Cultural Appropriation of Seminole Men’s Fashion Amanda Thompson 7 Working from the Periphery: The National Association of Fashion and Accessories Designers (NAFAD) and the Promotion of Black Fashion Einav Rabinovitch-Fox 8 Primitivizing Accessories: ‘Slave Jewelry’ and the Construction of White Femininity in 1920s America Victoria Rose Pass Section Three: Recovering the Everyday Introduction: Recovering the Everyday Hazel Clark and Lauren Downing Peters 9 Extra-ordinary Americans: Oral History, Workwear, and the U.S. Postal Service Alison Bazylinski, Lynn Heidelbaugh, and Rachel Lifter 10 1970s Fashion and Women: Finding the Everyday at the Intersection of Image, Archive and Oral History Alexis Romano 11 Preserving the Latinx Sartorial Experience Through Digital Archives Michelle McVicker 12 Self-Fashioning, Participatory Research, and the “Will to Adorn” Diana Baird N’Diaye Index

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For anyone looking for a guide to the future of fashion this book is essential. It is a worthy addition to a fashion scholar's library. * Patricia Cunningham, The Ohio State University, USA * Full of fascinating, surprising, and often subversive untold stories about people’s engagement with everyday dress in America, this book is essential reading for all those interested in the exciting, expanding field of fashion studies. * Fiona Hackney, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK * This book offers a wide-ranging collection of essays on the everyday fashions of ordinary Americans. Contributions by emerging scholars as well as seasoned authors represent diverse voices and multi-disciplinary approaches useful to anyone interested in American fashion. * Linda Welters, University of Rhode Island, USA *

Author Information

Hazel Clark is Professor of Design Studies and Fashion Studies, and currently Director of MA Fashion Studies, Parsons School of Design, New York. Her most recent books are Fashion and Everyday Life: London and New York (Bloomsbury, 2017) with Cheryl Buckley, and Fashion Curating (Bloomsbury, 2018) co-edited with Annamari Vänskä. Lauren Downing Peters is Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies and Director of the Fashion Study Collection at Columbia College Chicago. She is the author of Fashion Before Plus-Size: Bodies, Bias and the Birth of an Industry (Bloomsbury, 2023).

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