Introduction: Body Dressing

Joanne Entwistle

Elizasbeth Wilson

Part One: Theoretical Approaches

Dress Needs: Reflections on the Clothed Body, Selfhood and Consumption

Kate Soper

The Dressed Body

Joanne Entwistle

Shop-Window Dummies? Fashion, the Body, and Emergent Socialities

Paul Sweetman

Minding Appearances: Style, Truth and Subjectivity

Susan Kaiser

From Fashion to Masquerade: Towards an Ungendered Paradigm

Efrat Tseelon

Part Two: Historical Case Studies

When They Are Veyl'd on Purpose to be Seene: The Metamorphosis of the Mask in Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century London

Christoph Heyl

Performing Selfhood: The Costumed Body as a Site of Mediation Between Life, Art and Theatre in the English Renaissance

Ronnie Mirkin

Manliness, Modernity and the Shaping of Male Clothing

Chris Breward

Embodying the Single Girl in the 1960s

Hilary Radner

Part Three: Contemporary Case Studies

Desire and Dread: Alexander McQueen and the Contemporary Femme Fatale

Caroline Evans

Fashioning the Queer Self

Ruth Holliday

Dress, Gender and the Public Display of Skin

Joanne B. Eicher

Index