Contents
Preface ix
Part One Clothing History 1
1 history and Sociology of Clothing: Some
methodological observations 3
2 Language and Clothing 20
3 Towards a Sociology of Dress 31
Part Two Systems and Structures 35
4 ‘Blue is in Fashion This year’: a note on
research into Signifying units in Fashion
Clothing 37
5 From Gemstones to Jewellery 54
6 Dandyism and Fashion 60
7 [an Early Preface to] The Fashion System 65
8 Fashion, a Strategy of Desire: round-table
Discussion with roland Barthes, Jean
Duvignaud and henri Lefebvre 80