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Reading about shopping, really
Reading FashionEast: The Spectre that Haunted Socialism
An ethnography of the New York fashion industry like no other
For your reading list
Fashion is all about bodies: it is produced, promoted and worn by bodies… When we speak of fashion we speak simultaneously of a number of overlapping and interconnecting bodies involved in the production and promotion of dress as well as the actions of individuals acting on their bodies when ‘getting dressed.’
Joanne Entwistle, The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory
Reading: Elissa Auther. String, Felt, Thread
On a world-wide scale, complex moral and ethical issues related to dominance and autonomy, opulence and poverty, political legitimacy and succession, and gender and sexuality, find ready expression through cloth.
Jane Schneider and Annette Weiner, Preface to Cloth and Human Experience
