Deviant Bodies and Suitable Clothes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12587716 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ingun Grimstad Klepp (0000-0002-4747-1446, corresponding author), Mari Rysst |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79-99 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Fashion Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-704X • E-ISSN: 1751-7419 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1362704x.2016.1138658 |
| OpenAlex | W2286582711 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 25 |
Suitable clothes are clothes that make the body socially accepted. The theme of this article concerns what people with deviant bodies do when suitable clothes are difficult to find; clothes that make their bodies fit in in everyday social contexts. Based on interviews with Norwegian men and women, the focus is on those people who have bodies that deviate from the present Western bodily ideals of thinness, fitness and no deviances. The article relates the interviews to research in two different fields: disability studies and fashion studies. A primary focus is on the relationship between acceptance of one’s own body—“making the best out of it,”—and respondents’ different strategies for coping with the situation. The final discussion addresses the relationship between the clothes market and deviant bodies. Focusing on a group of people with special problems related to clothes might bring forth new knowledge in general. In addition, a change in the status of the market may have positive effects for those already excluded from this market
Aesthetics · Art · Clothing · Focus group · Norwegian · Political science · Sociology · Theme (computing · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Psychology · Social Psychology
Cripping fashion and desiring disabled bodies
Dress or cover? The origin and meaning of clothing
Empowering women wearing plus-size clothing through co-design
Gender and the Diversity of the Human Body as Challenges for the Inclusive Design of Wearable Technology
Disfigurement, the body and dress
In/exclusion in fashion discourse
Dressing a Demanding Body to Fit In
Crip fashion networks
The Lens, the Mirror and the Frame
Fabulous Masculinities
"Admiration for the "fuller figure
Clothing as Material Culture
Expressive Prostheses
Inclusively Designed Womenswear through Industrial Seamless Knitting Technology
Production, Consumption, Prosumption
I Have a Suitcase Just Full of Legs Because I Need Options for Different Clothing”
Slimming Lines
Covering over Trauma with a Fetishized Body Image
You Are What You Wear
Fashionably Voluptuous
Showing and Hiding
Fashion and the Fleshy Body
Body, Image and Affect in Consumer Culture
Materialised Ideals
The Effects of Thin and Heavy Media Images on Overweight and Underweight Consumers
Techniques of the body∗
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |