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Dress and the Body

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Dress and the Body is an interdisciplinary field of study that examines the relationship between clothing, personal identity, and the physical body. It explores how dress influences social perceptions, cultural norms, and individual expression, while also considering the implications of body image and the materiality of garments in various contexts.
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Dress and the Body is an interdisciplinary field of study that examines the relationship between clothing, personal identity, and the physical body. It explores how dress influences social perceptions, cultural norms, and individual expression, while also considering the implications of body image and the materiality of garments in various contexts.

Key research themes

1. How does body image influence the interplay between aesthetic and social psychological aspects of dress?

This theme explores the dual perceptual and affective components of body image and how it shapes individuals' interactions with clothing and the social presentation of appearances. By integrating aesthetic theory with social psychological constructs, the research underlines body image as a critical element influencing self-esteem, identity expression through dress, and the socio-cultural construction of appearance.

Key finding: This work articulates a theoretical framework that integrates aesthetics and social psychology in understanding body image within textiles and clothing education. It highlights that body image, comprising both how one thinks... Read more
Key finding: This study empirically demonstrates how dress acts as a stimulus in experimental settings to evoke self-objectification and other-objectification, affecting individuals’ cognitive performance and psychological states. It... Read more

2. What role does the mirror play in shaping the visual self and embodied experience of dress?

This research domain investigates the mirror’s function beyond mere reflection, focusing on its performative role in defining dress and self through visual subjectification. It challenges the dominant gaze-centered paradigm by exploring alternative, multi-sensorial engagements with dress and body. Theoretical applications of phenomenology and poststructuralism are employed to reconceptualize the relationship of body, dress, and identity as fluid, relational, and affectively transformative rather than fixed images.

Key finding: This paper reveals that mirrors are active agents in reinforcing visual self-objectification by presenting dress as an image signifying identity, entrapping individuals within normative visual-gaze paradigms. Using... Read more
Key finding: The article critiques predominant sociological interpretations of clothing as symbolic representation, advancing the notion of 'feeling of being dressed' as a complex affective and embodied phenomenon. Drawing from... Read more
Key finding: Utilizing Deleuze’s philosophy of encounters, habit, and memory, this work theorizes fashion as habitual coordination between bodies and materialities, where fashion’s materialities actively modulate subjectivity. It frames... Read more

3. How has dress functioned historically and culturally as a symbol of identity, communication, and social positioning?

This theme addresses the historical, cultural, and socio-political uses of dress as a potent symbol for identity formation, communication, and social stratification. It explores diverse contexts including minority group experiences, gendered dress reform, and wartime class narratives, highlighting dress as a dynamic semiotic and material practice that encodes and negotiates power relations, resistance, and societal norms.

Key finding: The article chronicles how dress in Western and African patriarchal societies historically symbolized female submission and socio-political roles, controlling women’s visibility and agency. It demonstrates that dress... Read more
Key finding: Through analyzing satirical cartoons and actual consumer data, this study exposes how fashion, especially the wearing of fur, was employed as a discursive site mediating class distinctions and patriotism narratives during... Read more
Key finding: This introduction foregrounds the study of Jewish dress via historical visual sources as a means to understand how dress has been used both by Jews and their oppressors across history to construct, regulate, and communicate... Read more
Key finding: By examining Muslim women's Urdu periodicals debating dress reform and modesty, this work elucidates the role of the safety pin as a technological mediator allowing new modesty practices amid colonial modernity. It highlights... Read more
Key finding: This paper analyzes twentieth-century reformist efforts targeting Namboothiri women’s dress, showing how clothing reforms were entwined with patriarchal aims to control female bodies under the guise of modernization. It... Read more

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