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This book is about fashion culture from the inception of fashion into a culture. It tells about how what other cultures consider fashionable to advertising practices. Its telling in the way of explaining the meaning of fashion and how it defines a society/culture.--Liannahosein (talk) 20:37, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

Cabrera, Ana, and Lesley Miller. "Genio y Figura. La influencia de la cultura española en la moda." Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture 13.1 (2009): 103 - 110. Print.

Sandbox for fashion cycles here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Liannahosein/sandbox/fashioncycles

Polhemus, Ted, and Lynn Procter.Fashion & anti-fashion: anthropology of clothing and adornment. London: Thames and Hudson, 1978.

Tarlo, Emma, and Annelies Moors. Islamic fashion and anti-fashion: new perspectives from Europe and North America. London: Bloomsbury, 2013.

Yordanov, Oggy. New club kids: London party fashion in the noughties. Munich: Prestel Art, 2011.

Mills, Kelly Leigh. Black power : the political fashion and anti-fashion of the Black Panther Party. New York: Fashion Institute of Technology, 2007.

Polhemus, Ted, and Lynn Procter.Fashion & anti-fashion: anthropology of clothing and adornment. London: Thames and Hudson, 1978.

This is the most comprehensive of his works - combining ideas on the anthropology of the body which he first explored in his graduate thesis and expanding and updating ideas about fashion and style which first appeared in Fashion & Anti-fashion. As if that weren’t enough, he also threw in modesty, eroticism and gender issues. Indeed, re-reading Bodystyles after 12 years, the author felt it should have been five books instead of one. “There is simply too much crammed in” he stated. The other problem is that the writing style and many of the ideas are too complex for a popularly-oriented picture book. Despite this, however, this remains his only published work in which themes which he finds personally exciting (in particular, the interplay of the physical and social levels of meaning, the social constructedness of the body) are explored in any depth. Given that most academic anthropologists have shown little interest in his work and given, on the other hand, that far too few professionals within the fashion world seem interested in the looking at this industry from an intellectual perspective, there has not, since Bodystyles, been a suitable occasion for him to further develop these ideas.