Introduction : The field of men's fashion
Part I. A brief history of men's fashion : From black in Spain to black in Shakespeare / John Harvey
The three-piece suit / David Kuchta
Macaroni masculinities / Peter McNeil
Thomas Carlyle and Sartor Resartus / Michael Carter
Dandyism, visual games, and the strategies of representation / Olga Vainshtein
A tale of three Louis, ambiguity, masculinity, and the bow tie / Rob Shields
Uniforms and the creation of ideal masculinity / Elisabeth Hackspiel- Mikosch
Better and brighter clothes: the Men's Dress Reform Party, 1929-1940 / Barbara Burman
Part II. Masculinity and sexuality: the making of fashionable men : California casual: lifestyle marketing / William R. Scott
'Men don't wear velvet you know!': fashionable gay masculinity and the shopping experience, London, 1950-early 1970s / Clare Lomas
Überman: masculinity, costume, and meaning in comic book superheroes / Vicki Karaminas
The Italian job: football, fashion and that sarong / Stella Bruzzi
From catwalk to catalogue: male fashion models, masculinity and identity / Joanne Entwistle
The transvestite continuum: Liberace - Valentino - Elvis / Marjorie Garber
Dragging it up and down: the glamorized male body / Mark Simpson
Class, race and masculinity: the Mcdaddy, the Superfly, and the Rapper / Del LaGrace Volcano and Judith 'Jack' Halberstan
Part III. Icons: the evolution of men's wear : Heroes in wool / Anne Hollander
The reinvention of tailoring / Michael Zakim
The Japanese suit and modernity / Toby Slade
Clothes and the modern man in 1930s Oxford / Laura Uglini
A note: a charismatic art / Richard Martin
Modern masculinity and the rise of school uniforms / Jennifer Craik
Rancher and farmer dress in north central Texas: an ethnographic history / George A. Boeck, Jr.
American denim: blue jeans and their multiple layers of meaning / Beverly Gordon
Part IV. Subculture: style and resistance : The zoot suit: its history and influence / Holly Alford
Back to Africa: Reggae and Rastafarianism / Dick Hebdige
Cultural responses of the Teds / Tony Jefferson
Rock, fashion and perfomativity / Noel McLaughlin
The Warhol look / Mark Francis and Margery King
'Macho man': clone and the development of a masculine stereotype / Shawn Cole
Part V. COnsuming and creative style : Fashion and the man: from suburb to city street / Christopher Breward
Fashioning the playboy: messages of style and masculinity in the pages of Playboy magazine, 1953-1963 / Becky Conekin
'It was style with a capital "S": versions of being male presented at the beautillion ball / Annette Lynch
New men and new markets / Frank Mort
Consuming masculinities: style, content and men's magazines / Tim Edwards.
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The men's fashion reader. ISBN 9781845207878. Published by Berg in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
