Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Style

by Cintra Wilson

Book Overview

Wilson reports the findings of her fashion road trip across the United States, a journey that took three years and ranges across the various economic belt regions of America: the Cotton, Rust, Bible, Sun, Frost, Corn, and Gun Belts. Acting as a kind of fashion anthropologist, she documents and decodes the sartorial sensibilities of Americans across the country. Our fashion choices, she argues, contain a riot of visual cues that tell everyone instantly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393081893
• ISBN13: 9780393081893
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 9.5"