Modest fashion : styling bodies, mediating faith / edited by Reina Lewis. - 1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations. - Dress cultures .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

mediating modesty / Faith-based fashion and the commercially fluid boundaries of confession -- "Discover the beauty of modesty" : Islamic fashion online / Fashion forward and faith-tastic! Online modest fashion and the development of women as religious interpreters and intermediaries / Meeting through modesty : Jewish-Muslim encounters on the Internet / Hasidic women's fashion aesthetic and practice : the long and short of tzniuth / Modesty without religion? Secularity, shopping and social status through appearance -- Denim : the modesty of clothing and the immodesty of religion / Modest motivations : religious and secular contestation in the fashion field / "Can we discuss this?" / Manufacturing and mediating modesty : the industry and the press -- Modesty regulators : punishing and rewarding women's appearances in mainstream media / Insider voices, changing practices : press and industry professionals speak / Reina Lewis -- Annelies Moors -- Reina Lewis -- Emma Tarlo -- Barbara Goldman Carrel -- Daniel Miller -- Jane Cameron -- Elizabeth Wilson -- Liz Hoggard -- Reina Lewis (editor and contributor). Introduction : Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.

9781780763828 (hbk.) 9781780763835 (pbk.) 9780857722256 (e-book)


Women's clothing--Symbolic aspects.
Clothing and dress--Religious aspects.
Modesty.
Fashion.


Electronic books.

GT1720 / .M634 2013eb