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Modest Fashion: Styling Bodies, Mediating Faith
Author(s): Reina Lewis (Author, Editor)
- Publisher: I.B.Tauris
- Publication Date: 30 May 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 1780763824
- ISBN-13: 9781780763828
Book Description
Increasing numbers of women are engaging in the development and discussion of modest dressing; a movement matched by a growing media and popular demand for intelligent commentary about the topic. Modest Fashion sets out to meet that need. As a trend, modest dressing is spreading across the world, yet it is rarely viewed as fashion .Studying consumers and producers, retailers and bloggers, Modest Fashion provides an up to the minute account of the art of dressing modestly and fashionably. Leading scholars in the area, along with journalists, fashion designers, entrepreneurs and bloggers discuss the emergence of a niche market for modest fashion among and between Jewish, Christian and Muslim faith groups as well as secular dressers. Crossing creeds and cultures, analysing commentary alongside commerce, the book probes the personal and the political as well as religious, aesthetic and economic implications of contemporary dress practices and the debates that surround them.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This is a wonderful discussion of new configurations of modest fashions in the contemporary world, with contributors from academia, business and the media. Focusing on the interrelationships among fashion production and consumption practices of Christian, Jewish and Muslim faith groups, this book is a constant delight. –Özlem Sand kç , Bilkent University
About the Author
Reina Lewis is Artscom Centenary Professor of Cultural Studies, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. Her books as author include Gendering Orientalism: Race, Femininity and Representation (1996), Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem (I.B.Tauris, 2004) and Re-Fashioning Orientalism: New Trends in Muslim Style (forthcoming 2014).
