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Fashion & war in popular culture / Denise N. Rall ; Susanne Hillen, copy editor ; Stephanie Sarlos, cover design ; Bethan Ball, production manager.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rall, Denise N.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Military uniforms.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (204 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, England ; Chicago, Illinois : Intellect, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Aside from the occasional nod to epaulettes or use of camouflage, war and fashion seem to be strange partners. Not so, argue the contributors to this book, who connect military industrial practices as well as military dress to textile and clothing in new ways. For instance, the book includes a series of commentaries on the impact of military dress in the airline industry, in illustrated wartime comics and even considers today's muscled soldier's body as a new type of uniform. Elsewhere, the effects of conquest introduce a new set of postcolonial aesthetics as military and colonial regimes disrupt local textile production and garment making. In another chapter, it is argued that textiles and fashion are important because they reflect a core practice, one that bridges textile artists and designers in an expressive, creative and deeply physical way to matters of cultural significance. And the book concludes by calling the very mode of 'military chic' into ethical question. The premier text to illustrate the impact of war on textiles, bodies, costume, art and design, Fashion & War in Popular Culture will be warmly welcomed by scholars of fashion design and theory, historians of fashion and those interested in theories of warfare and military science.
- Contents:
- ""Front Cover""; ""Half Title ""; ""Title ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Contextualizing fashion and war within popular culture""; ""Overview""; ""Section I: The military in popular culture""; ""Chapter 1: Representation of female wartime bravery in Australia�s Wanda the War Girl and Jane at War from the UK""; ""Chapter 2: Fashionable fascism: Cinematic images of the Nazi before and after 9/11""; ""Chapter 3: Branding the muscled male body as military costume""; ""Section II: Fashion and the military""
- ""Chapter 4: In the service of clothes: Elsa Schiaparelli and the war experience""""Chapter 5: The discipline of appearance: Military style and Australian flight hostess uniforms 1930�1964""; ""Chapter 6: Models, medals, and the use of military emblems in fashion""; ""Section III: Framing youth fashion, textile artworks and postcolonial costume in the context of conflict""; ""Chapter 7: Battle dressed � clothing the criminal, or the horror of the �hoodie� in Britain""; ""Chapter 8: Dutch wax and display: London and the art of Yinka Shonibare""
- ""Chapter 9: Costume and conquest: Introducing a proximity framework for post-war impacts on textile and fashion""""Afterword: The military in contemporary fashion""; ""Contributors""; ""Back Cover""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 14, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-78320-293-9
- 1-78320-294-7
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