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...
In both revealing and concealing the body, fashionable clothing is an excellent communicator of a person's identity, which in turn can assume social a...