Format:
1 Online-Ressource
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illustrations (black and white)
ISBN:
9781474228046
Series Statement:
Dress, body, culture
Content:
1. Introducing Japanese Fashion, Past and Present 2. Lost in a Gaze: Young Men and Fashion in Contemporary Japan 3. Boy s Elegance: A Liminality of Boyish Charm and Old-World Suavity 4. Glac Wonderland: Cuteness, Sexuality and Young Women 5. Ribbons and Lace: Girls, Decorative Femininity and Androgyny 6. An Ivy Boy and a Preppy Girl: Style Import-Export 7. Concluding Japanese Fashion Cultures, Change and Continuity Bibliography Index
Content:
From Rococo to Edwardian fashions, Japanese street style has reinvented many western dress styles, reinterpreting and altering their meanings and messages in a different cultural and historical context. This wide ranging and original study reveals the complex exchange of styles and what they represent in Japan and beyond, contesting common perceptions of gender in Japanese dress and the notion that non-western fashions simply imitate western styles. Through case studies focussing on fashion image consumption in style tribes such as Kamikaze Girls, Lolita, Edwardian, Ivy Style, Victorian, Romantic and Kawaii, this ground-breaking book investigates the complexities of dress and gender and demonstrates the flexible nature of contemporary fashion and style exchange in a global context. Japanese Fashion Cultures will appeal to students and scholars of fashion, cultural studies, gender studies, media studies and related fields
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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Previously issued in print: London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015, published online in 2018
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Zielgruppe - Audience: Specialized
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Barrierefreier Inhalt: Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472532800
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781472532800
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781474228046
