1st Edition

Kit: Fashioning the Sporting Body

Edited By Jean Williams Copyright 2016
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

This is the first edited collection of its kind to analyse the distinct but overlapping topics of dress, costume, sport and leisure history. For researchers of bodily adornment and movement, sport and costume history are both primarily concerned with industrial practice and embodied experience. The ways in which bodies are adorned, embellished and clothed (or revealed) highlights the hybrid... Read more

1. Kit: Fashioning the Sporting Body - Introduction  Jean Williams

2. Delineating Professional and Amateur Athletic Bodies in Victorian England  Dave Day and Samantha-Jayne Oldfield

3. The Style Stakes: Fashion, Sportswear and Horse Racing in Inter-war America  Alison Goodrum

4. Given the Boot: Reading the Ambiguities of British and Continental Football Boot Design  Jean Williams

5. ‘Ten Years Ahead of His Time’: The East End Elegance of Martin Peters  John Hughson

6. German Sports Shoes, Basketball, and Hip Hop: The Consumption and Cultural Significance of the adidas ‘Superstar’, 1966-1988  Thomas Turner

7. From Sportswear to Leisurewear: The Evolution of English Football League Shirt Design in the Replica Kit Era  Christopher Stride, Jean Williams, David Moor and Nick Catley

Biography

Jean Williams is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Sporting History and Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Having written on women’s football since 1998, Jean has recently published A Contemporary History of Women’s Sport 1850-1960 (Routledge, 2014). She is currently writing Send Her Victorious: A History of Britain’s Women Olympians 1900-2014, forthcoming in 2016.