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How long is your dissertation expected to be, there's an awful lot in there. Not meaning to be discouraging, but each one of those topics would make an excellent thesis in itself. You might find that in trying to cover all three, which are linked but sound quite different in focus/possible methodology, you fall between stools. Just a thought.
Buuuut - off the top of my head:
Gender-
Male (cut) vs. Female (colour, extravagant) clothing.
Kit kat's probably better than me on this, or Haus depending on how far back historically are you going? you've got stuff like the Dandy where colour and display as well as cut are important. And late victorian dress where for men *and* women cut and fabric are far more important than extravagance. I'd say be very careful of generalisation on this. In C20 you could work this- if (tieing into the fetish thing) you want to look at youth cultures then Dick Hebdidge's Subcultures is old, but probably still invaluable. Also the Garber.
Ambiguity of the fashion model, curvy women in the 1980's to heroin chic in the 1990's... reflection of the music scene but also feminist movement.
For a simplistic but practically unique (as far as i know) look atrock music and gender, which examines image and presentation in interesting ways, check out The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion and Rock 'n Roll - Simon Reynolds, Joy Press
Clubbing clothes and the fetish scene (a little about Gaultier also) and feminine becoming masculine in the growing aggression of clothes (Westwood).
AmericanFetish.net might be useful, the guy's thesis has a usefulo bibliog. on it.
In a hurry, but will chat to an ex-fashion student friend for refs on fashion cycles/fashion forecasting.... you might want to look around on the net for professional fashion sites, things like trend prediction etc... |
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