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Fashion and Age: Dress, the Body and Later Life

Autor Julia Twigg
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 iul 2013

În cel de-al patrulea capitol, intitulat „Vocile femeilor în vârstă”, Julia Twigg pune bazele unei cercetări care depășește simpla estetică, abordând modul în care identitatea se reconstruiește prin vestimentație la senectute. Credem că această lucrare este esențială pentru a înțelege tranziția de la normele sociale rigide, care impuneau femeilor stiluri discrete și acoperite, către o realitate modernă în care „piața gri” aspiră la tendințele de masă. Volumul extinde cadrul teoretic propus de Body Dressing de Dr Joanne Entwistle prin date noi extrase din interviuri cu designeri și retaileri, concentrându-se specific pe intersecția dintre gerontologie și teoria modei.

Structura cărții urmărește o progresie logică, de la bazele teoretice ale întrupării (embodiment) în primele capitole, până la analiza practică a modului în care strada și mass-media — exemplificată prin personajul mediatic Mrs Exeter — modelează percepția asupra bătrâneții. Recomandăm acest studiu deoarece reușește să scoată dezbaterea despre vârstă din zona dependenței fizice, plasând-o în sfera experienței trăite și a expresiei de sine. În contextul operei autoarei, Fashion and Age reprezintă o rafinare a temelor explorate în The Body in Health and Social Care, mutând focusul de pe îngrijirea medicală pe consumul cultural și identitatea vizuală.

Spre deosebire de Why Women Wear What They Wear de Sophie Woodward, care se concentrează pe etnografia actului cotidian de a se îmbrăca, lucrarea de față adoptă o perspectivă sociologică mai largă, incluzând răspunsul industriei de modă la schimbările demografice. Tonul este academic, dar accesibil, oferind un aparat critic robust necesar studenților de la sociologie, design vestimentar și istoria costumului.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781847886965
ISBN-10: 1847886965
Pagini: 184
Ilustrații: 12 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte studenților și profesioniștilor din modă și sociologie care doresc să înțeleagă cum se transformă identitatea odată cu vârsta. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care hainele mediază relația dintre corpul care îmbătrânește și normele sociale, oferind instrumente analitice pentru a descifra comportamentul de consum al segmentului demografic senior, adesea ignorat de analizele clasice de modă.


Descriere

Throughout history certain forms and styles of dress have been deemed appropriate - or more significantly, inappropriate - for people as they age. Older women in particular have long been subject to social pressure to tone down, to adopt self-effacing, covered-up styles. But increasingly there are signs of change, as older women aspire to younger, more mainstream, styles, and retailers realize the potential of the 'grey market'.

Fashion and Age is the first study to systematically explore the links between clothing and age, drawing on fashion theory and cultural gerontology to examine the changing ways in which age is imagined, experienced and understood in modern culture through the medium of dress. Clothes lie between the body and its social expression, and the book explores the significance of embodiment in dress and in the cultural constitution of age.

Drawing on the views of older women, journalists and fashion editors, and clothing designers and retailers, it aims to widen the agenda of fashion studies to encompass the everyday dress of the majority, shifting the debate about age away from its current preoccupation with dependency, towards a fuller account of the lived experience of age. Fashion and Age will be of great interest to students of fashion, material culture, sociology, sociology of age, history of dress and to clothing designers.

Cuprins

I: Introduction
II: Clothing, Fashion and the Body
III: Ageing, Embodiment and Culture
IV: The Voices of Older Women
V:Dress and the Narration of Life
VI: Magazines, the Media and Mrs Exeter
VII: The High Street Responds: Designing for the Older Market
IX: Conclusion
References

Recenzii

We're all Fabulous Fashionistas now, if the press is to be believed. The baby boomers, who wore Biba and Mary Quant, are opting for the same colourful styles as their daughters. Yet this simplistic view is about to be challenged by Julia Twigg, professor of sociology at the University of Kent and author of Fashion and Age, an academic study of dress and later life.
[A] fascinating discussion of what happens to our sense of fashion as we reach later life. As [Twigg] puts it, "age is not just peripheral to fashion but positively erosive of it". Drawing on interviews with those who wear, sell and write about fashion, Twigg addresses a range of questions about how we negotiate fashion as we get older...This book is a welcome addition to an expanding field...The author's grasp of the nuances of interpretation of fashion, dress and clothing is excellent.
I found this book absorbing and clever in its use of wide-ranging ideas and approaches ... It is clearly and articulately written, and I have no doubt that scholars from a wide range of disciplines will find it as stimulating and thought-provoking as I did
First-person narrations, testimonies and ... [interviews with] consumers, producers and publicists regarding fashion and old age give a three-dimensional perspective and a clearly added value to Twigg's study ... A valuable source of data.
An absorbing and imaginative book which opens out a new area of investigation in cultural studies and the sociology of age. Drawing upon interviews with older women and those working in the fashion industry, the research provides rich insights into the role of clothing and dress in shaping identity in later life. The book provides an exemplary balance of empirical, historical, and theoretical perspectives. This is an outstanding study deserving of a wide readership.
This innovative book provides a carefully crafted, rich and sophisticated account of the interplay between bodily and cultural aging through the lens of fashion and dress for older women. Fashion and Age explores central questions in contemporary culture, including how dress plays a significant part in the constitution of identities. By weaving empirical research with a breadth of theoretical ideas, this agenda-setting book is essential reading within ageing, gender, and consumption studies.
Age studies makes a heady, liberating move into fashion with Julia Twigg's smart and entertaining book. Focusing her research on the intersections of feminism, cheap consumables, and women's individualized development of their own look in relation to "appropriateness," Twigg can explain how it is that (in spite of fashion's cult of youth), many more women of a certain age are finally dressing without pain.
Fashion and Age is a path-breaking book on the neglected topic of how later life and clothing function in today's society. Julia Twigg shows how older women, the media and the High Street all interact to create our understanding of both ageing and dress. In doing so, Julia Twigg has produced a key text for those interested in the operation of the fashion industry as well as those seeking to understand the links between the personal narratives of ageing and the contemporary nature of embodiment. Fashion and Age provides plenty of food for thought for students and researchers alike and is a valuable addition to the cultural sociology of ageing.