Patricia K. Flynn
Adams, J. Donald.
Naked We Came: A More or Less Lighthearted Look at the Past, Present and Future of Clothes
, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967.
A humorous look at clothing as reflecting culture’s values.
Black, J. Anderson.
A History of Fashion
. New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc. 1980.
The section beginning on page 251 discusses clothing since the end of World War II.
Csikszentmihaly, Mihaly and Eugene RochbergHulton,
The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
A research study that attempts to understand how people in urbanized America relate to objects in their homes.
Flügel, J.C.
The Psychology of Clothes
. London: Hogarth Press, 1930.
An early psychological study of the function of clothing. Found in Mudd Library.
K. Gibbons, “Communication Aspects of Women’s Clothes and Their Relationship to Fashionability,”
British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
8 (1969): 301312.
A British study of teenage girls, that investigates clothing as it’s related to fashionability and ideal self image.
Henley, Nancy M.
Body Politics: Power, Sex and Nonverbal Communication
. New Jersey: PrenticeHall, 1977.
Clothing as nonverbal messages; page 93 presents a discussion of unisex and androgynous clothing.
Hurlock, Elizabeth B.
The Psychology of Dress; an Analysis of Fashion and its Motives
. New York: Ronald Press, 1929.
A study of clothing that reflects the values of the 1920’s. Found In Mudd Library.
Knapp, Mark L.
Nonverbal Communication in Human Interaction
. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978. Second Edition.
Page 178 begins a discussion of clothes as communication in the business world.
Langner, Lawrence.
The Importance of Wearing Clothing
. New York: Hastings House, 1959.
Page 141 begins a discussion of teenage clothing as it reflects the values of the 1950’s. Found in Mudd Library.
Laver, James.
The Concise History of Costume and Fashion
. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1969.
Pages 252 to 273 discuss the historical development of freedom in clothing styles since the 1940’s.
Lurie, Alison.
The Language of Clothes
. New York: Random House, 1981.
A very helpful, up to date source that discusses contemporary clothing as a language of communication.
Miller, Douglas T. and Marion Nowak.
The Fifties: The Way We Really Were
. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977.
A very insightful history of the 1950’s.
Perutz, Kathrin.
Beyond the Looking Glass: America’s Beauty Culture
. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1970.
A discussion of what “beauty” is in the United States: page 237 begins a discussion of unisex.
Prown, Jules D. “Mind in Matter: An Introduction to Material Culture Theory and Method”,
Winterthur Portfolio
, vol. 17, no. 1, Spring 1982, pp. 119.
Professor Prown’s essay that defines material culture and his methodology of object analysis.
Schwartz, J., “Men’s Clothing and the Negro,”
Phylon
24 (L963): pp. 224231.
A study of how the lack of status determines the dress of Black males.