Unique IDLIB-00014910Date1st January 2013Date qualifieryear onlyDescriptionDescription: Queer style offers an insight into queer fashionability by addressing the role that clothing has played in historical and contemporary lifestyles. From a fashion studies perspective, it examines the function of subcultural dress within queer communities and the mannerisms and messages that are used as signifiers of identity. Diverse dress is examined, including effeminate 'pansy, ' masculine macho 'clone, ' the 'lipstick' and 'butch' lesbian styles and the extreme styles of drag kingsand drag queens. Divided into three main sections on history, subculturalidentity and subcultural style, Queer style will be of particular interest to students of dress and fashion as well as those coming to subculture from sociology and cultural studies.
1.The Meaning of Style between Classic and Queer
Winckelmann and the Suppressed Homoerotism in Modernist Style
A Selective History of Non-queer, Standard, Straight and Classic Dressing
2.Lesbian Style: From Mannish Women to Lipstick Dykes
Mannish Lesbians and Salon Dandies
Lesbian Bar Culture of the 1940s and 1950s
Feminist Androgyny and Anti-style
Cross-dressing and Androgynous Style
Designer Dykes and Lesbian Chic
3.Gay Men's Style: From Macaroni to Metrosexual
Macaronis and Fops
Dandies and Aesthetes: The Early Days of Queer Style
The Artistic Avant-garde and the Years Pending the Second World War
An Artistic Bent: Warhol, Glam and Pop
Gay Activism and Gay Pride: Clowns and Clones
Contemporary Queer: Hard to Say
4.Kiss of the Whip: Bondage, Discipline and Sadomasochism, or BDSM Style
Military Uniforms and the Gestapo
Clips, Clamps, Leather and Accessories
5.Drag: Of Kings and Queens
Dames, Divas and Queens
Drag Balls
Kinging and Club Culture
6.Crossing Genders, Crossing Cultures
Japanese Dandy Style
Mardi Gras Boys of Singapore
Albanian Sworn Virgins
Polynesian Gender Crossing
The Hijra: An Alternative Gender Role in India
Ladyboys and Tomboys of Thailand
Public Note: Includes indexLanguageEnglish (eng)IllustrationsBlack and white illustrationsPublisherBloomsburyPlace of publicationLondon
England
Queer style/ Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas (01/01/2013), [LIB-00014910]. City of Sydney Archives, accessed 17 Jul 2025, https://archives.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/nodes/view/1752014
