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Fashion and Age: Dress, the Body and Later Life

Twigg, Julia·2013·Bloomsbury Publishing Plc eBooks
DOI 10.2752/9781474290340
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Throughout history certain forms and styles of dress have been deemed appropriate - or more significantly, inappropriate - for people as they age. Older women in particular have long been subject to social pressure to tone down, to adopt self-effacing, covered-up styles. But increasingly there are signs of change, as older women aspire to younger, more mainstream, styles, and retailers realize the potential of the 'grey market'. Fashion and Age is the first study to systematically explore the links between clothing and age, drawing on fashion theory and cultural gerontology to examine the changing ways in which age is imagined, experienced and understood in modern culture through the medium of dress. Clothes lie between the body and its social expression, and the book explores the significance of embodiment in dress and in the cultural constitution of age. Drawing on the views of older women, journalists and fashion editors, and clothing designers and retailers, it aims to widen the agenda of fashion studies to encompass the everyday dress of the majority, shifting the debate about age away from its current preoccupation with dependency, towards a fuller account of the lived experience of age. Fashion and Age will be of great interest to students of fashion, material culture, sociology, sociology of age, history of dress and to clothing designers.

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  • Each area of scholarship on age-life course sociology, gerontology, and age studies-tends to be somewhat inward-looking.

    “While some scholars (e.g., Barrett & Barbee 2022, Calasanti 2020, Twigg 2013) build connections across these intellectual areas, each area tends to be somewhat inward-looking.”

    From Centering Age Inequality: Developing a Sociology-of-Age Framework (2022) · cites this paper as Twigg 2013

  • The discipline's treatment of age may stem from a naturalistic view of age (and aging) as biological and, therefore, presocial or even nonsocial.

    “The discipline's treatment of age also may stem from a naturalistic view of age (and aging) as biological and, therefore, presocial or even nonsocial (e.g., Calasanti 2010, Pickard 2014, Twigg 2013).”

    From Centering Age Inequality: Developing a Sociology-of-Age Framework (2022) · cites this paper as Twigg 2013

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Authors
Twigg, J.
Corresponding author
Twigg, Julia
ORCID
Twigg, Julia
Venue
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc eBooks
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published
2013
DOI
10.2752/9781474290340
OpenAlex
W2503448840
Cited by
139
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0
Citations by year
2026: 24 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 14 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 1
FWCI
34.12
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Museology › Fashion and Cultural Textiles
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Cultural and Historical Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
Keywords
aging, older women, fashion, embodiment, cultural gerontology, grey market, everyday dress, fashion theory, material culture, fashion designers, retail companies, fashion editors

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