Overview

In both revealing and concealing the body, fashionable clothing is an excellent communicator of a person's identity, which in turn can assume social and moral significance in coding someone as 'respectable' or as an outsider; as deviant. This book explores the relationship between fashion and criminality. It sets out to develop from interdisciplinary perspectives, new ways of seeing everyday dress and the individual body in the public space. It focuses on specific garments and their individual or group wearers - the Hoodie and the trench-coat, knitted Norwegian Lustkoffe sweaters and low-slung trousers, branded sportswear and Hip Hop styling, the fashion model - innocuous in themselves, but which have been coded as deviant socially and in the media. It questions the point at which morality as a form of social control meets criminality and demonstrates how such established dress codes and terms as 'suitability' or 'glamour' can be renegotiated through the exploration of what people wear every day in response to notions of criminality.

Full Product Details

Author:   Jo Turney
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
ISBN:  

9781780766997

ISBN 10:   1780766998
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 November 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

IntroductionTrace Evidence: Signs of the CrimeWhite Lies and the Tailoring of Evil Dr Jonathan FaiersIn the Hood - Clothing the Criminal or the Horror of the 'Hoodie'Dr Jo Turney The Criminalization of the Saggy PantHolly Price AlfordCrime FramesTo Die For: The Relationship between Crime and Fashion in the work of Melanie PullenSarah HandMug Shot/Head Shot: danger, beauty, and the temporal politics of booking photographyStephanie Sadre-OrafaiMaking-Up Myra: killer blondes, beauty and the Myra Hindley lookSharon LloydCrimes of PassionKogyaru and pleasure of dressing as a 'delinquent girl' (f?ryo sh?jo)Sharon KinsellaThere's no b'ness like ho b'ness (50 Cent, P.I.M.P.): deconstructing the hip-hop 'ho'Alex FranklinFear and Clothing in Adidas: Branded Sportswear and Fashioning the 'Hard Man'.Dr Jo TurneyCrimes of ResistanceDeja Vu Desperados: Embattled Survivor Imagery of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the Setting of Youth Rebellion America 1968-1972Michael A. Langkjaer Crime and Fashion in the 1950s and 1960s in Socialist HungaryKaitlin MedvedevQueer Materiality: An Empirical Study of Gender Subversive Styles in Contemporary StockholmPhilip WarkanderCrime Division: Between Good and EvilSkulls & Crossbones: America's Confederacy of PiratesAnne CecilLice in Court: Norwegian Knitted Sweaters on Big Time CriminalsIngun Grimstad KleppOut of the Trenches and into Vogue: Un-belting the Trench CoatMarilyn Cohen

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Jo Turney is Senior Lecturer in History of Design, Bath School of Art & Design, Bath Spa University.

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