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Zusatztext Historically rigorous, well-written and accessible, Fashion and Everyday Life is an essential text for anyone researching, working, or studying in the field of fashion or dress design and history. Tracing the way in which ordinary people interpreted ‘high’ and ‘low’ trends and fashions to express marginalized identities, the book will inspire practitioners and academic students alike. Bringing together accounts of the complexity of ordinary women’s lives in the urban fashion capitals of London and New York during the twentieth century, this authoritative work explores the creative use of dress across the dividing lines of age, gender, race and social class. Informationen zum Autor Cheryl Buckley is Professor of Fashion and Design History at the University of Brighton, UK. Her other books include Designing Modern Britain (2007), the co-authored Fashioning the Feminine: Representation and Women's Fashion from the Fin de Siècle to the Present (2002), and Potters and Paintresses: Women Designers in the Pottery Industry, 1870-1955 (1990). Hazel Clark is Professor of Design Studies and Fashion Studies, and Research Chair of Fashion at Parsons School of Design, New York, USA. Her books include the co-edited Old Clothes, New Looks (Berg, 2005) and Design Studies: A Reader (Berg, 2009). Vorwort Based on de Certeau’s theory of ‘the everyday’, this book explores the ‘ordinary’ spaces in which people in Britain and America during the 20th century were able to shape their identities through fashion. Zusammenfassung Taking cultural theorist Michel de Certeau’s notion of ‘the everyday’ as a critical starting point, this book considers how fashion shapes and is shaped by everyday life. Looking historically for the imprint of fashion within everyday routines such as going to work or shopping, or in leisure activities like dancing, the book identifies the ‘fashion system of the ordinary’, in which clothing has a distinct role in the making of self and identity. Exploring the period from 1890 to 2010, the study is located in London and New York, cities that emerged as as socially, ethnically and culturally diverse, as well as increasingly fashionable. The book re-focuses fashion discourse away from well-trodden, power-laden dynamics, towards a re-evaluation of time, memory, and above all history, and their relationship to fashion and everyday life. The importance of place and space - and issues of gender, race and social class - provides the broader framework, revealing fashion as both routine and exceptional, and as an increasingly significant part of urban life. By focusing on key themes such as clothing the city, what is worn on the streets, the imagining and performing of multiple identities by dressing up and down, going out, and showing off, Fashion and Everyday Life makes a unique contribution to the literature of fashion studies, fashion history, cultural studies, and beyond. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1: London and New York: Clothing the City Chapter 2: Street Walking Chapter 3: Dreams to Reality Chapter 4: Dressing Up Chapter 5: Dressing Down Chapter 6: Going Out Chapter 7: Showing Off Notes Bibliography...
