Japanese Fashion Cultures : Dress and Gender in Contemporary Japan.
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomsbury Academic,
2014.
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Colección: | Dress, body, culture.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover page
- Halftitle page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- 1 INTRODUCING JAPANESE FASHION, PAST AND PRESENT
- Layers of Japanese aesthetic history
- Dress and gender
- Wearing gender in Japan
- Interlaced flows of culture: seeing Japanese fashion globally
- Reflections and distortions: representations as a source for study
- Tracing chapters
- 2 LOST IN A GAZE: YOUNG MEN AND FASHION IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
- Reading men's fashion: a brief history of Japanese men's fashion magazines
- Japanese men's fashion periodicals: past and present
- Neat, fresh and smart: Popeye, Men's non-no and Fineboys
- The age of sensibility: men's fashion magazines and defined age demographics
- A boy's life
- The face of the magazines: first impressions of the encounter
- The pleasurable gaze: looking and being looked at
- Through the magic looking-glass: men and vanity
- Science versus the art of taking care of appearance
- Conclusion
- 3 BOY'S ELEGANCE: ALIMINALITY OF BOYISH CHARM AND OLD-WORLD SUAVITY
- Fusion of European and Japanese aesthetic senses
- The nationality of fashionable men
- In praise of youthful slenderness: preferred modes of male aesthetics in Japan
- With a 26-inch waist: slenderness as the flower of Japanese male beauty
- Elegant cowboys: D & G garments and stylistic transformations
- Boyish reinvention of the 'Neo-Edwardian' dandy style
- A marriage of the casual and elegant: popularization of elegance in contemporary Japanese men's styles
- Boyish playfulness and old-world elegance: an aesthetic continuity and transformation of Milkboy
- Edgy, cute and suave: Milkboy as a candy-box of boys' fashion aesthetics
- Dressing for time and occasion: negotiating romantic desires and narcissistic impulses
- Conclusion.
- 4 GLACÉ WONDERLAND: CUTENESS, SEXUALITY AND YOUNG WOMEN *
- In the name of kawaii
- A liminal space of dreaming: Japanese concept of shoj o
- Alice's voyage to the empire of the sun
- A Victorian girl with independence: Alice and a sense of autonomy
- Being Alice in Japan: music videos of Alisa Mizuki, Tomoko Kawase and Kaela Kimura
- A fairy tale without a prince: Japanese music videos and narrative themes
- Alice vs Barbie: sexualization of femininity in American music videos
- Too cute to be good: some criticism of kawaii
- Gloomy wonderland: darker sides of the Victorian girl
- A delicate kind of revolt
- Three stages of subtle revolutions
- The equilibrium of pastel and dark shades
- Conclusion
- 5 RIBBONS AND LACE: GIRLS, DECORATIVE FEMININITY AND ANDROGYNY
- The dress of a bisque doll princess: aspects of Lolita fashion
- Embroidering the romantic past: European dress aesthetics and Japanese appropriations
- Decorative femininity: praises and criticism
- A Lolita girl in the countryside: dress and Shimotsuma Monogatari
- Appearance says everything: dress and identity in Shimotsuma Monogatari
- Sweet reveries of the rococo: the rococo dreams of Momoko
- Frills for independence
- Valiant be the sweet maidens: girls propelling the narrative
- A romantic camaraderie of girls
- Performing masculin féminin
- Refashioning the 'androgynous' look
- Conclusion
- 6 AN IVY BOY AND A PREPPY GIRL: STYLE IMPORT-EXPORT*
- Through a Japanese lens
- Ivy goes to Japan
- Dressing up for school: variations of the school style
- Rugged suavity: Take Ivy and IVY Illustrated
- Preppy girls
- Conclusion
- 7 CONCLUDING JAPANESE FASHION CULTURES, CHANGE AND CONTINUITY
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- INDEX.