Respectability sewn up: Dressmaking and film star style in the fifties and sixties

European Journal of Cultural Studies

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 473-490

  Moseley, Rachel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bourdieu; class; dressmaking; fashion; femininity; fifties; gaze; respectable; sixties; Skeggs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993729297     PISSN: 13675494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/136754940100400406     Document Type: Article

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