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Paperback. Series: Gender and American Culture. Num Pages: 208 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFCA; JFCK; JNKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 322.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Gender and American Culture
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469629919
SKU
V9781469629919
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Ref
99-99
About Deirdre Clemente
Deirdre Clemente is assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, USA.
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