Fashion Crimes: Dressing for Deviance - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 178076698X ISBN 13: 9781780766980

Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

Synopsis

Fashion is widely recognised as a site for social acceptance and rejection, and as a signifier of personal identity. What happens when people stray from 'appropriate' dress codes or associate garments with 'respectability' or deviance? How does fashion relate to criminality?

In this interdisciplinary volume, leading scholars propose new ways of seeing everyday dress and the body in public space. Garments and individual or group wearers are used as case studies to explore the codification of clothing as criminal – hoodies, trench-coats, Norwegian Lustkoffe sweaters, low-slung trousers and Hip Hop styling are all untangled as garments with criminal significance. The book questions the point at which morality as a form of social control meets criminality, and suggests ways to renegotiate established dress codes and terms such as 'suitability' and 'glamour' through the study of what people wear in response to notions of criminality.

About this title

About the Author:

Joanne Turney is Associate Professor at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. She is the author of The Culture of Knitting (2009).

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 178076698X
• ISBN 13: 9781780766980
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Turney Joanne