Across cultures and chronologies, the subjects examined in “Fashioning the Self“ grapple with dress as a means of self-creation, self-validation, and cultural expression. These scholars sensitively present fraught historical contexts and demonstrate the ways in which conformity and resistance have informed British style and identity.

Annette Becker

Director of the Texas Fashion Collection

College of Visual Arts & Design

University of North Texas

“Fashioning the Self: Identity and Style in British Culture” offers a rich resource for scholars of fashion studies, material culture, and literary studies. By juxtaposing diverse artifacts and texts, and exploring them thoughtfully within their distinctive milieux, this volume offers deep insight into the complexity of race, gender, culture, and class and how dress culture both reflects and electrifies the possibilities of British identity.

Dr. Christine Bayles Kortsch

Author of "Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women’s Fiction: Literacy, Textiles and Activism"