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Fashion & War in Popular Culture (Paperback)
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Aside from the occasional nod to epaulets 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 impacts of
conquest introduce a new set of postcolonial aesthetics; this is
because military and colonial regimes disrupted 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 and 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.
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