Clothing thus provides a rich area in which to explore how masculine and feminine identities takes place within a social order of gender-based inequalities
intimate apparel … places the body in ambiguity. Adorned in undergarments, the body is clothed but not dressed.
essential to the shaping of the publicly viewed silhouette
There’s a lot of talk of silhouette. Why is this so important? I gather that it is. Is there something about the eye that it sees silhouette and contrast and outline.
to signal the changing ideals of femininity
larger social changes taking place in women’s lives.
the revival of fashionable forestry after WWII… paralleled the renewed emphasis on domestic femininity in that era.
“corsetless” dresses … Paul Poiret
How’d he do it?
Technology.
respectably nice and desirably naughty
and there’s a footnote. Good! You got to have footnotes for statements like this. Appreciating these after reading The Second Skin. #4
The mass production of objects thus provided an opportunity for the production of words and images that ascribed meanings to and created structures for using and interpreting these commodities.
I’ve never thought of this. And footnote. #6.
foundation garments with elastic straps and metal hooks.. needs to be understood in relationship to social and economic changes … and transformations in the shaping, conceptualizing and representation of female bodies.
The interpretive frameworks and historical understandings I present in this book draw upon a range of methodologies and sziciplines, including costume and art history, literary and film criticism, and social science analysis.
You should look at other disciplines and how they evaluate and measure. Code may only be one measure (and an amorphous one at that!).
the “male gaze” as a controlling force in the creation and presentation of popular culture
Footnote #8
Glamour … the magazine further defined glamour as “a quality each of use sees in some there human — and wishes she possessed”
WTF
… “everyone has potential glamour” which she can bring out with the right combination of cosmetics, clothing, accessories, hairstyle, and deportment.
W. T.
The magical power of glamour this had a material dimension that all women could access in the theoretically democratic marketplace.
F. Footnote #9 Whats the name of this footnote? Now, I’m just curious and going way off path. Flipping to the end of the chapter. Endnotes… 😑.. Flipping to the end of the book….. American Beauty, Banner.
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