Recommended Reading

Malcolm Barnard, Fashion as Communication (London: Routledge, 1998).

Diane Crane, Fashion and Its Social Agenda: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).

Fred Davis, Fashion, Culture, and Identity (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992).

Nan Enstad, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999).

J.C. Flugel, The Psychology of Clothes (London: Hogarth Press, 1932).

Anne Hollander, Sex and Suits (New York: Knopf, 1994).

Kathy Peiss, Hope in a Jar: The Making of Americašs Beauty Culture (New York: Metropolitan Books, 1998).

Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class (New York: Macmillian Company, 1911).

Shane White and Graham White, Stylin': African American Expressive Culture from its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998) 262.

Michael Zakim, Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic 1760-1860 (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003).