Fashion and Its Social Agendas Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing

Summary: What are you wearing-and what does itmean? In this absorbing book, Diana Crane explores the social significance of clothing-from denoting class in the 19th century to ethnicity, sexual orientation, or political beliefs in the 20th-and assesses both the role of fashion in creating identity and the roles of media and consumerism in creating fashion itself.