Fashion and Everyday Life: London and New York

摘要

Cheryl Buckley and Hazel Clark's project in Fashion and Everyday Life: London and New York is to consider the relationships between fashion and everyday life in the long twentieth century in two key style-setting cities. Their stated goal is to 'establish a new critical framework for the study of fashion and its history by examining its role in urban everyday life...' (p. 1). The authors adopt a broad definition of fashion, not only as an economic system but also encompassing ideas of identity, self-presentation, and spectacle, determined by clothing wearers. Clothing expressions that might be termed 'costume' or 'dress' by some fashion scholars are thus subsumed in the working definition of fashion; having defined fashion so broadly, the authors then must distinguish between 'high fashion' and 'ordinary' fashion (p. 7).