Annotated Bibliography On Fashion, Culture, And Identity

Davis, Fred. Fashion, Culture, and Identity. 1st ed. Chicago: U of Chicago, 1992. 5,27. Print.

“I speak, of course, of fashion and some of its many facts: its sources in culture and social structure”(Davis,5)

”in all societies clothes serve to communicate more or less standardized meaning about their wearers”(Davis,27).

Horn, Marilyn J., and Lois M. Gruel. The Second Skin: An Interdisciplinary Study of Clothing. 3rd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968. 11,28. Print.

“There are no peoples known, past or present, who do not wear clothing of some type. People may be unclothed, but they are never completely unadorned”(Horn, Gruel 11).

However, what is considered beautiful and what is sexually attractive are not the same for all people”(Horn, Gruel

28).

Kaiser, Susan B. The Social Psychology of Clothing: Symbolic Appearances in Context. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan, 1990. 15. Print.
“Individuals may have first worn clothing in order to attract attention to, rather than to conceal, the sexual organs(Kaiser 15).”
“Though many have since agreed that clothes do serve a function of sexual appeal, few accept the idea that immodesty was the reason for wearing clothing(Kaiser 15).”