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Clothing Cultures 7.1 is out now!

Intellect is pleased to announce that Clothing Cultures 7.1 is out now!

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Aims and Scope

We all wear clothes. We are all therefore invested, at some level, in the production and consumption of clothing. Clothing Cultures intends to embrace issues and themes that are both universal and personal, addressing (and dressing) us all. Increasingly, as we all become accomplished semioticians, clothing becomes the key signifier in determining social interaction and behaviour, and sartorial norms dictate socio-cultural appropriateness. Following the rise of fashion theory, on an everyday level we all understand that our clothes ‘say’ something about us: about our times, nation, system of values. Yet clothing is not fashion; clothing is a term derivative from ‘cloth’, to cover the body, whereas fashion alludes to the glamorous, the ephemeral and the avant-garde. We wear clothes, but imagine fashion – an unattainable ideal.

Issue 7.1

Editorial

The fashion paradox

KATRINA SARK

Articles

Trans* inclusivity in fashion retail: Disrupting the gender binary with queer perspectives

CHARLOTTE CARBONE

Transgender fashion: Fit challenges and dressing strategies

SANDRA TULLIO-POW, ANNA S. YAWORSKI AND MAGDALENA KINCAID

The new Phrygian cap: Pussy hats, feminism and anti-fashion

JULIA PETROV

Ethical fashion consumption: Market research and fashion sustainability in Canada and beyond