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Fashioning queer bodies : intersections of dress, identity, and anxiety in the queer women's community

Creator:

Reddy-Best, Kelly

Abstract:

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship of dress and queer women and how their sexual identity influences their appearance management behaviors. I answered the following research questions: (1) How is gender identity constructed and negotiated in different spaces for queer? (2) Does sexual identity influence dress...

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Dissertation
"Pretty and patriotic" : women's consumption of apparel during World War II

Creator:

Mower, Jennifer M.

Abstract:

The War Production Board issued limitation order 85 in April 1942 in order to conserve fabric and manpower needed for the war effort. The L-85 order froze the silhouette so no major style changes in women's wear would occur during the war. It is clear that on the one hand...

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Dissertation
Fashion media's role in the debate on millinery and bird protection in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Creator:

Scarborough, Amy D.

Abstract:

The purpose of this study was to explore the possible relationship among fashion media, the social responsibility agenda of the Audubon Society, and the use of birds in millinery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Both the content analysis method and the historic method were used to gain...

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Dissertation

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Dr. Leslie Davis Burns, Dr. Kathy Mullet, Dr. Marilyn Read, and Dr. Barb Lachenbruch. Your