Japanese fashion cultures dress and gender in contemporary Japan

• Main Author: Monden, Masafumi (Author)
• Format: Unknown
• Language: English
• Published: London Bloomsbury Academic 2015
• Series: Dress, body, culture
• Subjects: Fashion > History > Japan; Clothing and dress > History > Japan; Clothing and dress > Social aspects > Japan
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From Rococo to Edwardian fashions, Japanese street style has reinvented many western dress styles, reinterpreting and altering their meanings and messages in a different cultural and historical context. This wide ranging and original study reveals the complex exchange of styles and what they represe...

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• 1. Introducing Japanese Fashion, Past and Present2. Lost in a Gaze: Young Men and Fashion in Contemporary Japan3. Boy's Elegance: A Liminality of Boyish Charm and Old-World Suavity4. Glace; Wonderland: Cuteness, Sexuality and Young Women5. Ribbons and Lace: Girls, Decorative Femininity and Androgyny6. An Ivy Boy and a Preppy Girl: Style Import-Export7. Concluding Japanese Fashion Cultures, Change and ContinuityBibliographyIndex.