Garb : a fashion and culture reader / edited by Parme Giuntini and Kathryn Hagen.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Garb: A Reader on Fashion and Culture investigates the complexity of postmodern attitudes toward dress, fashion, identity and culture through a broad range of perspectives and theoretical approaches. Diverse essays show the richness of the field, as authors from various disciplines explore the significance of fashion and fashion visual culture in the contemporary world. Four hours of filmed interviews accompany the reader and include personal stories from emerging designers and seasoned professionals.  GARB essays and interviews address contemporary topics such as: Gender, Identity, Consumption, Style and Visual Culture. Includes essays from professionals or academics in Art History, Literature, Fashion Illustration, Folklore, English and more.  Offers a broad range of perspectives that encourage readers to think beyond their specific fields and reflect on the relationship between dress, fashion, identity and culture. Four hours of filmed interviews support the essays and include conversations withemerging designers and seasoned professionals. Includes provocative insights into the field as designers comment on the future of fashion, the increasing globalization of the industry, and the price that many are willing to pay to maintain their artistic independence. Provides a forum for sharing complex personal histories and ideas and offers readers career-advice and real-world experiences from those working in the field. Professionals and those new to the fashion industry.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction (p. xiii)
• Part I Mainstreaming (p. 3)
• Mainstreaming (p. 5)
• Skirting the Issue, or "Why Won't You Show Your Pretty Legs Anymore?" (p. 13)
• The Outmoded, the Reactionary, and the Revival of the Suit (p. 25)
• Uniformly So (p. 33)
• School Uniforms: Creating the Good Citizen (p. 37)
• Interview with Samuel Hoi (p. 45)
• Interview with Rosemary Brantley (p. 51)
• Part II Out of the Box (p. 57)
• Outside the Fashion Box (p. 59)
• Betwixt and Between: A Landscape of Female Childhood (p. 67)
• My Jeans, Myself, and I (p. 81)
• Reflections/Recollections on Black and the Leather Jacket (p. 95)
• Irony and Ambivalence: Postmodernist Issues in the Fashion World (p. 101)
• The White Shirt [deconstructed] (p. 111)
• Ironic Bodies and Tattooed Jews (p. 125)
• Who Am I? Who Are You? Inflected Dress in Syria (p. 141)
• Toward a Seamless Identity: Frum Fashion and the Experience of American Jewish Women (p. 147)
• My Bangles (p. 157)
• Fashion Matters: Reweaving an Asian Cultural Identity (p. 159)
• Cyberfashion (p. 165)
• Part III Fashion and Visual Culture (p. 177)
• Fashion and Visual Culture (p. 179)
• Interview with Bob Mackie (p. 187)
• Garb: Through the Artist's Eyes (p. 198)
• Jeffrey O'Connell
• Soo Kim and Ginny Cook (p. 203)
• Jane Goren (p. 219)
• Jon Swihart
• Robert Williams: Lowbrow Artist (p. 211)
• Joan Takayama-Ogawa, Ceramic Artist (p. 213)
• Jacci Den Harlog (p. 215)
• Sara Streeter, Guerilla Perfomance Artist (p. 219)
• Isabel Toledo, Fashion Designer (p. 221)
• Interview with Dave Hickey (p. 225)
• Part IV When Less Is More (p. 233)
• When Less Is More (p. 235)
• The Semiotics of the Itsy Bitsy Bikini (p. 243)
• The Speedo: A Few Brief Points (p. 259)
• Peggy Moffitt's Bare Breasts (p. 265)
• The Corset Revival After World War II: From Submission to Empowerment? (p. 271)
• Sex, Lies, and Lingerie: Betty Friedan and the Bullet Bra (p. 305)
• Panty Lines (p. 319)
• The Light Fantastic (p. 327)
• Part V Feminine Icons (p. 329)
• Iconically Yours (p. 331)
• Prom Dreams/Prom Dresses (p. 337)
• Red, White, and Breastplates: Clothing a Superhero (p. 345)
• What to Wear When Falling: A Girls' Guide to Fashions of Failure or How to Lose Success and Gain a Man (p. 353)
• Here Comes the Bride (p. 365)
• "Till Death Do Us Part"-or... (p. 371)
• Ending it... (p. 379)
• Selected Bibliography (p. 382)
• Index (p. 387)