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"It is not the case that fashion and clothing simply reflect an already existing sex and gender identity, but that they are part of the process by which attitudes to and images of both men and women are created and reproduced." Discuss with examples.
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"It is not the case that fashion and clothing simply reflect an already existing sex and gender identity, but that they are part of the process by which attitudes to and images of both men and women are created and reproduced." Discuss with examples. It has been suggested by many critics that clothes can change society's ideas of sex, gender and the roles of men and women. Rouse (1989) suggests that fashion and clothing do not reflect already established ideals of gender identity. However some critics propose that fashion and clothing follows strict basic ideas of masculinity and femininity. This essay plans to investigate the different ideas that critics have produced on fashion and identity, and see if Rouse's idea of clothing being 'part of the process' can be applied to examples of conventional and inverted fashion. It also plans to look at the argument that by not conforming to gendered...
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