[PDF] Walnut Ridge and Hoxie (Images of America) by Jon Walter; James Whitlow in Arts-Photography

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This book cover both historical and contemporary concerns; including the role fashion plays in subcultures. Fashion is a phenomenon that exemplifies diversity across cultures.It is dependent on time and place and commonly defined as the prevailing style at a given moment or place. Fashion is codified and endowed with social meanings about gender; sexuality and identity. Dress frames the body. It expresses who we are and who we are not as a means of expressing identity and a way of interacting and belonging to a particular culture. Dress also plays an important part in proclaiming a personrsquo;s sexual and gender identity.This book reflect the breadth of recent fashion scholarshipmdash;in both historical and contemporary settings our authors have engaged with film; photography; comics; magazines and television.