https://www.academia.edu/5349062/Fashion_and_Gender_Roles

Fashion and gender roles, Crane has a book out U of Chicago Press.

Crane, D (2000), Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing, Chicago University Press, Chicago.

This link is a discussion around Crane, others. Fascinating!

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But most of the observers are usually mistaken by
this idea of fashion industry‟s exclusive focus on female as an object of its advertisement blitz. This particularistic approach towards female as locus of fashion has roots in the ethos pursued during Victorian era of aristocracy. Craik (1993, pp.196) brilliantly traces the historical roots in the following words,

"Yet the equation of fashion with women and the exclusion of men is historically and culturally specific, stemming from nineteenth-century Victorian and European notions of etiquette, gender relations, and sexuality. In particular, these ideas proposed a radical split between genders and assigned each of them specific roles and locations. An index of this order of sexual division was the continuous recreation of dress codes. Within this process women were gradually assigned the role of the fashionable gender of the species."

Lotsa shifts going in in gender and fashion statements. The line is being blurred -- appropriated and subverted.

Interesting!

barbie~~

Quote from: barbie on October 03, 2015, 12:36:22 PM
Interesting!

barbie~~

I was just getting warmed up and on a roll when the linked article here came to a screeching halt.

There is a similar article out of Bryn Mawr --

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/11055

"Out of the Closet: Fashion's Influence on Gender and Sexuality"
Submitted by Kim K on Sun, 10/02/2011

Men's gender expression in fashion is really, really constipated . . .

Quote from: Allison Wunderland on October 03, 2015, 01:27:14 PM
I was just getting warmed up and on a roll when the linked article here came to a screeching halt.

There is a similar article out of Bryn Mawr --

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/11055

"Out of the Closet: Fashion's Influence on Gender and Sexuality"
Submitted by Kim K on Sun, 10/02/2011

Men's gender expression in fashion is really, really constipated . . .

Oh. Thanks for the link. I will share it in Facebook!

barbie~~

Armed w/ reading insight, stopped at the thrift . . . looking for a skirt, dark solid color, knee or slight below, med. weight, MUST FIT! (I can manage slight hand-sewn alterations like remove a tier, draw cord, shoulder drape.)

Thrift has "50% off Clothes" top price discounted is $2.50! I dropped $17.50-- 3 shorts for beach, tank, 3 skirts: light stretch blue knit poly, winter grey wool blend knit, and A-line 4 panel grey cotton blend w/belt loops slash pockets. This will work!

Get it home & all FITS perfectly.