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Buttoned Up - Clothing, Conformity, and White-Collar Masculinity (Paperback)
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Buttoned Up - Clothing, Conformity, and White-Collar Masculinity (Paperback)
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Who is today's white-collar man? The world of work has changed
radically since The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and other
mid-twentieth-century investigations of corporate life and
identity. Contemporary jobs are more precarious, casual Friday has
become an institution, and telecommuting blurs the divide between
workplace and home. Gender expectations have changed, too, with
men's bodies increasingly exposed in the media and scrutinized in
everyday interactions. In Buttoned Up, based on interviews with
dozens of men in three U.S. cities with distinct local dress
cultures-New York, San Francisco, and Cincinnati-Erynn Masi de
Casanova asks what it means to wear the white collar now.Despite
the expansion of men's fashion and grooming practices, the decrease
in formal dress codes, and the relaxing of traditional ideas about
masculinity, white-collar men feel constrained in their choices
about how to embody professionalism. They strategically embrace
conformity in clothing as a way of maintaining their gender and
class privilege. Across categories of race, sexual orientation and
occupation, men talk about "blending in" and "looking the part" as
they aim to keep their jobs or pursue better ones. These
white-collar workers' accounts show that greater freedom in work
dress codes can, ironically, increase men's anxiety about getting
it wrong and discourage them from experimenting with their dress
and appearance.
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