"Queer style" offers an insight into queer fashionability by addressing the role that clothing has played in historical and contemporary lifestyles. From a fashion studies perspective, it examines the function of subcultural dress within queer communities and the mannerisms and messages that are used as signifiers of identity. Diverse dress is examined, including effeminate 'pansy, ' masculine macho 'clone, ' the 'lipstick' and 'butch' lesbian styles and the extreme styles of drag kingsand drag queens. Divided into three main sections on history, subculturalidentity and subcultural style, "Queer style" will be of particular interest to students of dress and fashion as well as those coming to subculture from sociology and cultural studies.
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I thought I had a pretty good english vocab but I clearly have some work to do. Dense text, centers itself around a Western LG(BTQ?) perspectives, not a good treatment/inclusion of trans issues however and I wanted more recent stuff than 2004/5. I haven't heard transvestite used like it was in the Drag section before. Heavier on the male side of things. Could have been balanced better with the ‘everyone else in the world' section. I am not really convinced on why they included the BDSM section even though it was interesting to read.
I NEEDED MORE PICTURES - I had to google the difference between breeches and pantaloons and I'm still not convinced that was in any way an important point.
