Japanese Fashion Cultures : Dress and Gender in Contemporary Japan.

Japanese Fashion Cultures : Dress and Gender in Contemporary Japan.

From Rococo to Edwardian fashions, Japanese street style has reinvented many western dress styles, reinterpreting and altering their meanings and messages in a different cultural and historical context. This wide ranging and original study reveals the complex exchange of styles and what they represe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Monden, Masafumi
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Series:Dress, body, culture.
Subjects:
Fashion > Japan > History.
Clothing and dress > Japan > History.
Clothing and dress > Social aspects > Japan.
Gender studies, gender groups.
History of fashion.
Fashion & society.
History > General.
Social Science > Gender Studies.
Design > Fashion.
Clothing and dress
Clothing and dress > Social aspects
Fashion
Japan
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover page
  • Halftitle page
  • Series page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • 1 INTRODUCING JAPANESE FASHION, PAST AND PRESENT
  • Layers of Japanese aesthetic history
  • Dress and gender
  • Wearing gender in Japan
  • Interlaced flows of culture: seeing Japanese fashion globally
  • Reflections and distortions: representations as a source for study
  • Tracing chapters
  • 2 LOST IN A GAZE: YOUNG MEN AND FASHION IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
  • Reading men's fashion: a brief history of Japanese men's fashion magazines
  • Japanese men's fashion periodicals: past and present
  • Neat, fresh and smart: Popeye, Men's non-no and Fineboys
  • The age of sensibility: men's fashion magazines and defined age demographics
  • A boy's life
  • The face of the magazines: first impressions of the encounter
  • The pleasurable gaze: looking and being looked at
  • Through the magic looking-glass: men and vanity
  • Science versus the art of taking care of appearance
  • Conclusion
  • 3 BOY'S ELEGANCE: ALIMINALITY OF BOYISH CHARM AND OLD-WORLD SUAVITY
  • Fusion of European and Japanese aesthetic senses
  • The nationality of fashionable men
  • In praise of youthful slenderness: preferred modes of male aesthetics in Japan
  • With a 26-inch waist: slenderness as the flower of Japanese male beauty
  • Elegant cowboys: D & G garments and stylistic transformations
  • Boyish reinvention of the 'Neo-Edwardian' dandy style
  • A marriage of the casual and elegant: popularization of elegance in contemporary Japanese men's styles
  • Boyish playfulness and old-world elegance: an aesthetic continuity and transformation of Milkboy
  • Edgy, cute and suave: Milkboy as a candy-box of boys' fashion aesthetics
  • Dressing for time and occasion: negotiating romantic desires and narcissistic impulses
  • Conclusion.
  • 4 GLACÉ WONDERLAND: CUTENESS, SEXUALITY AND YOUNG WOMEN *
  • In the name of kawaii
  • A liminal space of dreaming: Japanese concept of shoj o
  • Alice's voyage to the empire of the sun
  • A Victorian girl with independence: Alice and a sense of autonomy
  • Being Alice in Japan: music videos of Alisa Mizuki, Tomoko Kawase and Kaela Kimura
  • A fairy tale without a prince: Japanese music videos and narrative themes
  • Alice vs Barbie: sexualization of femininity in American music videos
  • Too cute to be good: some criticism of kawaii
  • Gloomy wonderland: darker sides of the Victorian girl
  • A delicate kind of revolt
  • Three stages of subtle revolutions
  • The equilibrium of pastel and dark shades
  • Conclusion
  • 5 RIBBONS AND LACE: GIRLS, DECORATIVE FEMININITY AND ANDROGYNY
  • The dress of a bisque doll princess: aspects of Lolita fashion
  • Embroidering the romantic past: European dress aesthetics and Japanese appropriations
  • Decorative femininity: praises and criticism
  • A Lolita girl in the countryside: dress and Shimotsuma Monogatari
  • Appearance says everything: dress and identity in Shimotsuma Monogatari
  • Sweet reveries of the rococo: the rococo dreams of Momoko
  • Frills for independence
  • Valiant be the sweet maidens: girls propelling the narrative
  • A romantic camaraderie of girls
  • Performing masculin féminin
  • Refashioning the 'androgynous' look
  • Conclusion
  • 6 AN IVY BOY AND A PREPPY GIRL: STYLE IMPORT-EXPORT*
  • Through a Japanese lens
  • Ivy goes to Japan
  • Dressing up for school: variations of the school style
  • Rugged suavity: Take Ivy and IVY Illustrated
  • Preppy girls
  • Conclusion
  • 7 CONCLUDING JAPANESE FASHION CULTURES, CHANGE AND CONTINUITY
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX.

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