Tag: fashion

Searching for the Oasis in Life : Fashion and the Question of Female Emancipation in Late Nineteenth-Century Argentina

Indeed, fashion historians have traditionally presented women of the nineteenth century as frail beings, slavishly bending to the whims of a male-dominated (some might go as far as to say sadistic) fashion system. While there has been mention of a few notable women who escaped the period’s imposed moral and social expectations, there has been a tendency to represent the draped female body as the immobilized victim of an oppressive fashion system.

AutoraRegina Root
Año2004
TipoArtículo Académico
PaísArgentina
EditorialThe Americas
DescargaURL
DOI10.1353/tam.2004.0028
APARoot, R. A. (2004). Searching for the Oasis in Life: Fashion and the Question of Female Emancipation in Late Nineteenth-Century Argentina. The Americas, 60(3), 363-390.

SJO: Mapping Fashion and Masculinities in the Costa Rican Capital

This article is a descriptive mapping of the Costa Rican capital, San José. I discuss the different ecologies of men’s fashion as produced by the city, emphasizing how the physical landscape of the city informs, and perhaps defines, the sartorial choices of the men that inhabit it. The resulting range of performed masculinities reflects the relationships established between men and their near environment, primarily their clothes and the spaces they occupy in San José.

AutoraJosé Blanco F.
Año2015
TipoArtículo Académico
PaísCosta Rica
EditorialFashion Theory Journal
DescargaURL
DOI10.2752/175174114X14042383562146
APAJosé, B. F. (2014). SJO: Mapping Fashion and Masculinities in the Costa Rican Capital. Fashion Theory, 18(5), 569-600.