Masculine Fashion: Prescription and Description

The presentation will focus on the interplay among prescription, description, and inscription in social constructions of masculine fashion. Based upon (a) archival, critical discourse analyses of men’s magazines (e.g., Esquire, GQ, Details) and (b) interviews and surveys with U.S. male consumers, we explore the complex relationship between institutional and everyday discourses of style. Findings include an historical “ebb and flow” in the level of prescription and description in fashion media discourse. We compare the prescriptive and descriptive language used by contemporary media and male consumers, and analyze this language in relation to visual inscriptions of masculinity.



Citation:

Susan Kaiser, Janet Hethorn, Ryan Looysen, and Daniel Claro (2007) ,"Masculine Fashion: Prescription and Description", in E - European Advances in Consumer Research Volume 8, eds. Stefania Borghini, Mary Ann McGrath, and Cele Otnes, Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 305-310.

Authors

Susan Kaiser, University of California, Davis, USA
Janet Hethorn, University of Delaware, USA
Ryan Looysen, University of California, Davis, USA
Daniel Claro, University of Delaware, USA



Volume

E - European Advances in Consumer Research Volume 8 | 2007



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