Lucy Sargisson and Lyman Tower Sargent
Ashgate
Hardback
228
2004
Fashion is such an integral part of everyday life that it offers a unique lens for observing such social processes as identity construction or negotiation. At the same time, fashion, rightly or wrongly is often associated solely with modes of dress. Yet modes of bodily presentation and cultural representation (in media, stories, conventions) are just as important. In weaving fashion texts Efrat Tse?lon weaves all three together to form an individual and lively fashion narrative.