LEADER 05321nam 2200649 450 001 9910786887703321 005 20230126213334.0 010 $a1-4725-8672-7 010 $a1-4725-8673-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000222795 035 $a(EBL)1769103 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001334644 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12539001 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001334644 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11272070 035 $a(PQKB)10951159 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1769103 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000222795 100 $a20140830h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJapanese fashion cultures $edress and gender in contemporary Japan /$fMasafumi Monden 210 1$aLondon, England ;$aNew York, New York :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (217 p.) 225 1 $aDress, Body, Culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-06396-6 311 $a1-4725-3280-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover page; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 INTRODUCING JAPANESE FASHION, PAST AND PRESENT; Layers of Japanese aesthetic history; Dress and gender; Wearing gender in Japan; Interlaced flows of culture: seeing Japanese fashion globally; Reflections and distortions: representations as a source for study; Tracing chapters; 2 LOST IN A GAZE: YOUNG MEN AND FASHION IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN; Reading men's fashion: a brief history of Japanese men's fashion magazines; Japanese men's fashion periodicals: past and present 327 $aNeat, fresh and smart: Popeye , Men's non-no and FineboysThe age of sensibility: men's fashion magazines and defined age demographics; A boy's life; The face of the magazines: first impressions of the encounter; The pleasurable gaze: looking and being looked at; Through the magic looking-glass: men and vanity; Science versus the art of taking care of appearance; Conclusion; 3 BOY'S ELEGANCE: ALIMINALITY OF BOYISH CHARM AND OLD-WORLD SUAVITY; Fusion of European and Japanese aesthetic senses; The nationality of fashionable men 327 $aIn praise of youthful slenderness: preferred modes of male aesthetics in JapanWith a 26-inch waist: slenderness as the flower of Japanese male beauty; Elegant cowboys: D&G garments and stylistic transformations; Boyish reinvention of the 'Neo-Edwardian' dandy style; A marriage of the casual and elegant: popularization of elegance in contemporary Japanese men's styles; Boyish playfulness and old-world elegance: an aesthetic continuity and transformation of Milkboy; Edgy, cute and suave: Milkboy as a candy-box of boys' fashion aesthetics 327 $aDressing for time and occasion: negotiating romantic desires and narcissistic impulsesConclusion; 4 GLACE? WONDERLAND: CUTENESS, SEXUALITY AND YOUNG WOMEN *; In the name of kawaii; A liminal space of dreaming: Japanese concept of shoj o; Alice's voyage to the empire of the sun; A Victorian girl with independence: Alice and a sense of autonomy; Being Alice in Japan: music videos of Alisa Mizuki, Tomoko Kawase and Kaela Kimura; A fairy tale without a prince: Japanese music videos and narrative themes; Alice vs Barbie: sexualization of femininity in American music videos 327 $aToo cute to be good: some criticism of kawaiiGloomy wonderland: darker sides of the Victorian girl; A delicate kind of revolt; Three stages of subtle revolutions; The equilibrium of pastel and dark shades; Conclusion; 5 RIBBONS AND LACE: GIRLS, DECORATIVE FEMININITY AND ANDROGYNY; The dress of a bisque doll princess: aspects of Lolita fashion; Embroidering the romantic past: European dress aesthetics and Japanese appropriations; Decorative femininity: praises and criticism; A Lolita girl in the countryside: dress and Shimotsuma Monogatari 327 $aAppearance says everything: dress and identity in Shimotsuma Monogatari 330 $aFrom Rococo to Edwardian fashions, Japanese street style has reinvented many western dress styles, reinterpreting and altering their meanings and messages in a different cultural and historical context. This wide ranging and original study reveals the complex exchange of styles and what they represent in Japan and beyond, contesting common perceptions of gender in Japanese dress and the notion that non-western fashions simply imitate western styles. Through case studies focussing on fashion image consumption in style tribes such as Kamikaze Girls, Lolita, Edwardian, Ivy Style, Victorian, Rom 410 0$aDress, Body, Culture 606 $aFashion$zJapan$xHistory 606 $aClothing and dress$zJapan$xHistory 606 $aClothing and dress$xSocial aspects$zJapan 615 0$aFashion$xHistory. 615 0$aClothing and dress$xHistory. 615 0$aClothing and dress$xSocial aspects 676 $a391.00952 686 $aDES005000$aHIS000000$aSOC032000$2bisacsh 700 $aMonden$b Masafumi$01568136 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786887703321 996 $aJapanese fashion cultures$93840052 997 $aUNINA