HECOL241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Vox Media, Formal Wear, Haute Couture
13 Jul 2018
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Some trends in menswear: camou age sheer textiles higher pant hems big bags as accessories. Current menswear categories tailored clothing: suits formal wear overcoats separate trousers. Traditionally, conversations about men"s style have been quieter than the ones about women"s, constantly happening only if you know where to look - racked. com. Study of men"s fashion was suggested by some, as late as the 1990s, that men"s fashion was marginal . Craik, 1994, p/176 a challenge to ones masculinity - if you do have an interest, something is off. Men are more comfortable being dandy. the attitude has really changed male consumers who are highly fashioned involved - italy the place to be to talk about the extremely fashionable men. Monarchs had long imposed sumptuary laws preventing hoi polloi (the masses, the common people) from dressing too grandly. Forcing elite to dress modesty suggested that power and place were no longer to be marketed by the yards of lace of free.
