Criminal wardrobe: features of deviant costume
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Criminal wardrobe: features of deviant costume
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A gangster in an expensive suit, a detective in a trench coat, a hooligan in a shapeless hoodie... How does clothing become a marker of deviance and threat? And can it really influence social behavior? The authors of the collection, compiled by fashion historian Joan Turney, undertake to answer these questions using a variety of approaches and methodologies.
From the style of football fans to the "kogyaru" suit, from the wardrobe of rappers to Norwegian knitted sweaters on defendants, from pirate symbols to discussions about the "too revealing" clothing of victims - the researchers' field of view includes fashion phenomena that are somehow associated with the violation of social norms.
The articles collected in the book help us see the familiar set of ideas about criminal behavior and deviant clothing as a mobile system, the foundations of which are constantly being revised depending on the historical and political context. Analyzing our ways of “reading” potential troublemakers by their appearance helps us understand a lot about how we construct the image of the “other” in the modern world.
From the style of football fans to the "kogyaru" suit, from the wardrobe of rappers to Norwegian knitted sweaters on defendants, from pirate symbols to discussions about the "too revealing" clothing of victims - the researchers' field of view includes fashion phenomena that are somehow associated with the violation of social norms.
The articles collected in the book help us see the familiar set of ideas about criminal behavior and deviant clothing as a mobile system, the foundations of which are constantly being revised depending on the historical and political context. Analyzing our ways of “reading” potential troublemakers by their appearance helps us understand a lot about how we construct the image of the “other” in the modern world.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books in the series Library of the magazine "Theory of Fashion"