Tag: Fashion
How women dress for other women
Jaimie Arona Krems, Oklahoma State University
“If you can’t be better than your competition,” Vogue editor Anna Wintour once said, “just dress better.”
Indeed, new research...
Lady backpacks and manly beer — the folly of gendered products
Samantha Brennan, University of Guelph
As women started counting steps and walking to work wearing running shoes and fitness trackers, there was one work-related item...
Can sun umbrellas ever become fashionable again in America?
Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M University
Many of us apply sunscreen when we go to the beach. But walking outside under the fierce summer sun...
Fashion production is modern slavery: Five things you can do to...
Anika Kozlowski, Ryerson University
Fashion shouldn’t cost lives and it shouldn’t cost us our planet. Yet this is what is happening today. Globalization, fast fashion,...
The forgotten legacy of gay photographer George Platt Lynes
Rebecca Fasman, Indiana University
From the late 1920s until his death in 1955, George Platt Lynes was one of the world’s most successful commercial and...
Three things we can learn from contemporary Muslim women’s fashion
Liz Bucar, Northeastern University
Major art museums have realized there is much to learn from clothing that is both religiously coded and fashion forward.
Earlier this...
Serena Williams’ catsuit controversy evokes the battle over women wearing shorts
Deirdre Clemente, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
At the French Open, Serena Williams wore a custom-made black catsuit. On August 24, the president of the...
What can we learn from the way graduates are decorating their...
Sheila Bock, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
For college students across the country, commencement formally marks the transition from student to graduate. Per tradition, most...
EXPLORING NATURE
Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...
Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...
