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Special Issue: Making an Appearance: Fashion, Dress and Consumption This special issue is built around themes arising from the Making an Appearance conference, Brisbane 2003. These themes, from which the essays are drawn, included new technology and fashion, Australian and New Zealand fashion, dress in film and television, masculinity, second hand clothing, wedding dresses, veiling, celebrity dressing, fashion and place, dress and youth, the fashion model, and challenges to traditional industry practice.

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'Way deeper than your average issue of Vogue. Essential reading for students and fashion historians.' The Guardian 'A fine addition to academic institutions with cultural studies programs; essential for those with special collections in fashionand costume.' Library Journal 'Fashion Theory is both chic and serious - yes, and sexy, too. There is much here to interest students of art, history, design, cultural studies, sociology, art history and anthropology.' Times Higher Education Supplement 'Fascinating to serious fashion and anthropology students.' Time Out

'Way deeper than your average issue of Vogue. Essential reading for students and fashion historians.' The Guardian'A fine addition to academic institutions with cultural studies programs; essential for those with special collections in fashionand costume.' Library Journal'Fashion Theory is both chic and serious - yes, and sexy, too. There is much here to interest students of art, history, design, cultural studies, sociology, art history and anthropology.' Times Higher Education Supplement'Fascinating to serious fashion and anthropology students.' Time Out

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Margaret Maynard is Associate Professor at the School of English Media Studies and Art History, University of Queensland, Australia. Jennifer Craik is at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

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