Clothing Cultures 8.1 is out now!
Intellect is pleased to announce that Clothing Cultures 8.1 is out now!
This issue of Clothing Cultures focuses on time. It starts with a discussion on dress in the past (Nan Turner) moves to the role of the past in the present (Lisa J. Hackett) to the present in the past (Jessica Banner) to maintaining the present in the future (Maria Mackinney-Valentin) through to the future and sustainability of fashion (Erin A Skinner, Carla A Litchfield and Brianna le Busque).
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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 8.1
JO TURNEY
Articles
Disco: When fashion took to the dance floor
NAN TURNER
Sewing history: Consuming culture
LISA J. HACKETT
JESSICA BANNER
Dressed for eternity: Memory rituals and burial attire in contemporary Denmark
MARIA MACKINNEY-VALENTIN
Barriers, brands and consumer knowledge: Slow fashion in an Australian context
ERIN A. SKINNER, CARLA A. LITCHFIELD AND BRIANNA LE BUSQUE
Book Review
Exploring planet cosplay: Book review of Planet Cosplay: Costume Play, Identity and Global Fandom, Paul Mountfort, Anne Peirson-Smith and Adam Geczy (2019)
THERÈSA M. WINGE
