Davis, Fred,  1925- <br/><br/>
Fashion, culture, and identity / 
Fred Davis. 
 - Pbk. ed. 
 - Chicago :  University of Chicago Press,  1994, ©1992. 
 - xi, 226 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/> Originally published in 1992. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index. 
<br/><br/>Do clothes speak? What makes them fashion? -- Identity ambivalence, fashion\'s fuel -- Ambivalences of gender : boys will be boys, girls will be boys -- Ambivalences of status : flaunts and feints -- Ambivalences of sexuality : the dialectic of the erotic and the chaste -- Fashion as cycle, fashion as process -- Stages of the fashion process -- Antifashion : the vicissitudes of negation -- Conclusion, and some afterthoughts. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0226138097 9780226138091 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Costume--Social aspects.<br/>Fashion--Social aspects.<br/>Gender identity.<br/>Group identity.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>391 DAV