Fear and clothing : unbuckling American style
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Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780393081893, 0393081893
Physical Desc
ix, 321 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Status
Newport - Adult Non-Fiction
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391.0097 Wil
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Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780393081893, 0393081893
Notes
Description
As the former New York Times Critical Shopper, and voted one of Fashionista's 50 Most Influential People in New York Fashion, Cintra Wilson knows something about clothes. And in Fear and Clothing, she imparts her no-holds-barred, totally outrageous, astute, and hilarious wisdom to the reader. Wilson reports the findings of her "fashion road trip" across the United States, a journey that took three years and ranges across the various economic "belt regions" of America: the Cotton, Rust, Bible, Sun, Frost, Corn, and Gun Belts. Acting as a kind of fashion anthropologist, Wilson documents and decodes the sartorial sensibilities of Americans across the country. Our fashion choices, she argues, contain a riot of visual cues that tell everyone instantly who we are, where we came from, where we feel we belong, what we want, where we are going, and how we expect to be treated when we get there. With this philosophy in mind, Wilson tackles and unpacks the meaning behind the uniforms of Washington DC politicians and their wives, the costumes of Kentucky Derby spectators, the attractive draw of the cowboy hat in Wyoming, and what she terms the "stealth wealth" of distressed clothing in Brooklyn. --Publisher's description.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Wilson, C. (2015). Fear and clothing: unbuckling American style (First edition.). W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wilson, Cintra. 2015. Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Style. W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wilson, Cintra. Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Style W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Wilson, Cintra. Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Style First edition., W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.
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