Dress Casual: How College Students Redefined American Style

As Deirdre Clemente shows in this lively history of fashion on American college campuses, whether it's jeans...
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Dress Casual: How College Students Redefined American Style by Clemente, Deirdre

Dress Casual: How College Students Redefined American Style

$101.75

Dress Casual: How College Students Redefined American Style

$101.75
Author: Deirdre Clemente
Format: Paperback
Language: English
As Deirdre Clemente shows in this lively history of fashion on American college campuses, whether it's jeans and sneakers or khakis with a polo shirt, chances are college kids made it cool. The modern casual American wardrobe, Clemente argues, was born in the classrooms, dormitories, fraternity and sorority houses, and gyms of universities and colleges across the country. As young people gained increasing social and cultural clout during the early twentieth century, their tastes transformed mainstream fashion from collared and corseted to comfortable. From east coast to west and from the Ivy League to historically black colleges and universities, changing styles reflected new ways of defining the value of personal appearance, and, by extension, new possibilities for creating one's identity.

The pace of change in fashion options, however, was hardly equal. Race, class, and gender shaped the adoption of casual style, and young women faced particular backlash both from older generations and from their male peers. Nevertheless, as coeds fought dress codes and stereotypes, they joined men in pushing new styles beyond the campus, into dance halls, theaters, homes, and workplaces. Thanks to these shifts, today's casual style provides a middle ground for people of all backgrounds, redefining the meaning of appearance in American culture.



Author: Deirdre Clemente
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 08/01/2016
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.13w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9781469629919

About the Author
Clemente, Deirdre: - Deirdre Clemente is assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

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