Fashion before plus-size : (Record no. 6847)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20250109140633.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 230518s2023 enka b 001 0 eng d
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781350172548
043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE
Geographic area code n-us---
050 14 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number HD9940.U3
Item number P484 2023
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Peters, Lauren Downing.
9 (RLIN) 21474
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Fashion before plus-size :
Remainder of title bodies, bias, and the birth of an industry /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Lauren Downing Peters.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1st ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Bloomsbury Visual Arts,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2023.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 217 p. :
Other physical details ill. ;
Dimensions 21 cm.
490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Dress Cultures Series
501 ## - WITH NOTE
With note K_B
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. In 2022, it was reported that plus-sizes accounted for nearly twenty percent of all women's apparel sales in the United States and was one of the industry's few growth sectors. For many, this news seemed to herald a remarkably inclusive turn for an industry that long bartered in exclusivity. Yet the recent success of plus-size fashion obscures a rather complicated history-one that can be traced back over a century, and which illuminates the fraught relationship between fashion, fat, and weight bias in American culture. Although many regard fat as a malady of the present, in the early twentieth century it was estimated that more than one-third of American women classified as "overweight." While modern weight bias had yet to fully cement itself in the American imaginary, the limitations of mass garment manufacturing coupled with the ascendent slender beauty ideal had already relegated larger women to fashion's peripheries. By 1915, however, fashion forecasters predicted that so-called "stoutwear" was well positioned to become one of the most lucrative subsectors of the burgeoning ready-to-wear trade. In the years that followed, stoutwear manufacturers set out to create more space for the fat woman in fashion but, in doing so, revealed an ancillary motivation: that of how to design fat out of existence altogether. Fashion Before Plus-Size considers what came "before" plus-size fashion while also shedding new light on the ways that the fashion industry not only perpetuates but produces weight bias. By situating stoutwear at the confluence of mass manufacturing, beauty ideals, standardized sizing, health discourse, and consumer culture, this book exposes the flawed foundations upon which the contemporary plus-size fashion industry has been built.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Women's clothing industry
Geographic subdivision United States.
9 (RLIN) 21475
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Body image in women
General subdivision Social aspects
Geographic subdivision United States.
9 (RLIN) 21476
999 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBERS (KOHA)
Koha biblionumber 6847
Koha biblioitemnumber 6847
Holdings
Date last seen Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Price effective from Koha item type Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Withdrawn status Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired
01/28/2025   HD9940.U3 P484 2023 0004427 01/28/2025 Books   Library of Congress Classification   Available for loans   SPAA Library SPAA Library General Collection 01/28/2025