Consuming fashion :

Consuming fashion : adorning the transnational body / - Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 1998. - xvii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - Dress, body, culture, 1360-466X . - Dress, body, culture. .

"Papers originated as conference presentations at the Canadian Anthropology Society meetings held in Montreal in 1995"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sensible shoes / Anne Brydon -- The cultural and historical contexts of fashion / Aubrey Cannon -- Transformations in the use of traditional textiles of Ngada (Western Flores, Eastern Indonesia): commercialization, fashion and ethnicity / Andrea K. Molnar -- Transnational commodity flows and the global phenomenon of the brand / Ian Skoggard -- Fashioning the body in post-Mao China / Xiaoping Li -- The body of art and the mantle of authority / Gordon Roe -- Breaking habits: gender, class and the sacred in the dress of women religious / Rebecca Sullivan -- A la mode: fashioning gay community in Montreal / Ross Higgins -- A tale of three Louis: ambiguity, masculinity and the bowtie / Rob Shields -- That barbie-doll look: a psychoanalysis / Jeanne Randolph.

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Clothing and dress--History--20th century.
Clothing and dress--Psychological aspects.
Clothing and dress--Symbolic aspects.
Identity (Psychology)
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.
Costume--History--20th century.

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