Twentieth-Century fashion

McNeil, P

Twentieth-Century fashion

McNeil, P

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Publisher:: Berg
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Mcneil Peter 2009, 'Twentieth-Century fashion', in NA (ed.), Berg Publishers, Oxford and New York, pp. xv-xxxi.
Issue Date:: 2009

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dc.contributor.author	McNeil, P	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	McNeil, Peter	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2010-07-13T08:46:51Z
dc.date.available	2010-07-13T08:46:51Z
dc.date.issued	2009	en_US
dc.identifier	2009002456	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Mcneil Peter 2009, 'Twentieth-Century fashion', in NA (ed.), Berg Publishers, Oxford and New York, pp. xv-xxxi.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	9781847885098	en_US
dc.identifier.other	B1	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/12445
dc.description.abstract	Many explanations are presented for the social role of fashion in modern life. The structure and form of Western European clothes are not simply a matter of adornment, or social interaction, nor are they vessels for pre-existing social attributes. Rather, they actively shape and make possible shifts in the lives of men and women at times of dynamic social change. Echoing some of the ideas proposed by the nineteenth-century critic Charles Baudelaire for the role of fashion in urban life, in 1969 the sociologist Herbert Blumer wrote that 'fashion operates as an orderly preparation for the immediate future' and that 'fashion is a very adept mechanism for enabling people to adjust in an orderly and unified way to a moving and changing world which is potentially full of anarchic possibilities'.	en_US
dc.publisher	Berg	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Verified OK	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Fashion: Critical and Primary Sources. Volume 4	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	NA	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Design Practice and Management	en_US
dc.title	Twentieth-Century fashion	en_US
dc.type	Chapter
utslib.location	Oxford and New York	en_US
utslib.citation.startpage	xv	en_US
utslib.citation.endpage	xxxi	en_US
utslib.identifier.org	DAB.School of Design	en_US
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Abstract:

Many explanations are presented for the social role of fashion in modern life. The structure and form of Western European clothes are not simply a matter of adornment, or social interaction, nor are they vessels for pre-existing social attributes. Rather, they actively shape and make possible shifts in the lives of men and women at times of dynamic social change. Echoing some of the ideas proposed by the nineteenth-century critic Charles Baudelaire for the role of fashion in urban life, in 1969 the sociologist Herbert Blumer wrote that 'fashion operates as an orderly preparation for the immediate future' and that 'fashion is a very adept mechanism for enabling people to adjust in an orderly and unified way to a moving and changing world which is potentially full of anarchic possibilities'.

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