1st Edition
Classifying Fashion, Fashioning Class Making Sense of Women's Practices, Perceptions and Tastes
By Katherine Appleford
Copyright 2021
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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Drawing together theoretical ideas from across the social sciences, Classifying Fashion, Fashioning Class examines how the fashion-class association has developed and, using the experiences of middle-and-working class British women, demonstrates how this relationship operates today.
Though increasingly academics argue that contemporary class distinctions are made through cultural... Read more
1. Introduction: Classifying Fashion, Fashioning Class
2. Women Talking Dirty: Making Sense of Fashion & Class
3. Class Fashion or Consumer Fashion: The Relevance of Class in Contemporary Fashion Consumption
4. Fashioning a Performance: Respectability, Femininity & Space
5. Dressing Up: Performance, Perceptions & Practice
6. Looking Good: Fashion, (Dis)Taste & Buying Practices
7. Mothers & Motherhood: Nurturing the Fashion-Class Relationship
8. Conclusion
Biography
Katherine Appleford is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Kingston University, London.
