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Fashion and Age: Dress, the Body and Later Life
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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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“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).”
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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
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Fashion and Cultural Textiles
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Cultural and Historical Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational 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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