Book Review: Boom! A Baby Boomer Memoir
Boom! A Baby Boomer Memoir, 1947-2022 by Ted Polhemus Lulu.com (January 2012) An anthropologist by degree, Ted Polhemus has written numerous books on style and/or subculture including Streetstyle (2010), Style Surfing: What to Wear in the 3rd Millennium (1996), The Body As a Medium of Expression (1975), Social Aspects of the Human Body (1978), among...
The Deforming Mirror: Anais Nin’s Fractured Identity as Read through Fashion
I am thrilled to be participating in Drexel University’s upcoming [the Dark Side of] Fashion in Fiction conference. If anyone will be in Philadelphia October 8 – 10 and is interested in introducing yourself, please get in touch! Here is a taste of what I will be presenting: Anais Nin grappled with complex self-identity issues...
Fashion in Literature
I just read a fun list on Flavorwire of their 10 favorite fashionable literary characters. Allow me to summarize: Lily Bart in Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth Dorian Gray in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray Holly Golightly in Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s Orlando in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando Scarlett O’Harain Margaret Mitchell’s Gone...
Book Review: "Fashion and Its Social Agendas"
Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing by Diana Crane My review rating: 5 of 5 stars This book was so good! Lots of statistics– which as any fashion reader knows is pretty uncommon– of class, social, and monetary indicators, some of which suggested conclusions different from what I’d believed. Well...
Book Review: On Fashion Criticism