Includes bibliographical references (p. [483]-514) and index.
Introduction : The field of men's fashion -- Part I. A brief history of men's fashion : From black in Spain to black in Shakespeare / John Harvey -- The three-piece suit / David Kuchta -- Macaroni masculinities / Peter McNeil -- Thomas Carlyle and Sartor Resartus / Michael Carter -- Dandyism, visual games, and the strategies of representation / Olga Vainshtein -- A tale of three Louis, ambiguity, masculinity, and the bow tie / Rob Shields -- Uniforms and the creation of ideal masculinity / Elisabeth Hackspiel- Mikosch -- Better and brighter clothes: the Men's Dress Reform Party, 1929-1940 / Barbara Burman -- Part II. Masculinity and sexuality: the making of fashionable men : California casual: lifestyle marketing / William R. Scott -- 'Men don't wear velvet you know!': fashionable gay masculinity and the shopping experience, London, 1950-early 1970s / Clare Lomas -- Überman: masculinity, costume, and meaning in comic book superheroes / Vicki Karaminas -- The Italian job: football, fashion and that sarong / Stella Bruzzi -- From catwalk to catalogue: male fashion models, masculinity and identity / Joanne Entwistle -- The transvestite continuum: Liberace - Valentino - Elvis / Marjorie Garber -- Dragging it up and down: the glamorized male body / Mark Simpson -- Class, race and masculinity: the Mcdaddy, the Superfly, and the Rapper / Del LaGrace Volcano and Judith 'Jack' Halberstan -- Part III. Icons: the evolution of men's wear : Heroes in wool / Anne Hollander -- The reinvention of tailoring / Michael Zakim -- The Japanese suit and modernity / Toby Slade -- Clothes and the modern man in 1930s Oxford / Laura Uglini -- A note: a charismatic art / Richard Martin -- Modern masculinity and the rise of school uniforms / Jennifer Craik -- Rancher and farmer dress in north central Texas: an ethnographic history / George A. Boeck, Jr. -- American denim: blue jeans and their multiple layers of meaning / Beverly Gordon -- Part IV. Subculture: style and resistance : The zoot suit: its history and influence / Holly Alford -- Back to Africa: Reggae and Rastafarianism / Dick Hebdige -- Cultural responses of the Teds / Tony Jefferson -- Rock, fashion and perfomativity / Noel McLaughlin -- The Warhol look / Mark Francis and Margery King -- 'Macho man': clone and the development of a masculine stereotype / Shawn Cole -- Part V. COnsuming and creative style : Fashion and the man: from suburb to city street / Christopher Breward -- Fashioning the playboy: messages of style and masculinity in the pages of Playboy magazine, 1953-1963 / Becky Conekin -- 'It was style with a capital "S": versions of being male presented at the beautillion ball / Annette Lynch -- New men and new markets / Frank Mort -- Consuming masculinities: style, content and men's magazines / Tim Edwards.
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