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Clothing Cultures 7.2 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to announce that Clothing Cultures 7.2 is out now!

Special Issue: ‘Post-Pandemic Dress’

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/clothing-cultures

Aims & 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 7.2

Editorial

JO TURNEY AND LIUDMILA ALIABIEVA

Articles

Virus chic: Facemasks and their usage

RACHEL BRETT

Food service uniforms and the symbolism(s) of wearing a mask

HEATHER MARIE AKOU

The role of women’s dressing in the current social activist movement in Chile (2019–20)

CAMILA ANDREA RÍOS ERAZO

Loss and revival of visual identity: Inner work with clothing

AGATA ZALEWSKA