[Commlist] CFP Culture Costume and Dress: Regarding Fashionable Society

*/Call for Papers/*

*/Culture Costume and Dress: Regarding Fashionable Society/***

*Faculty of Arts, Design and Media, Birmingham City University
5-7 June 2019*


**The *Dress in Context Research Centre* is pleased to announce its 
second international conference. This year’s theme will be the role of 
dress in fashionable society, whether that is through fashion itself, or 
as an expression of society in history, literature, and other fields.


Dress in all its manifestations – clothing, jewellery, accessories or 
body adornment - is necessarily related to fashion, and this 
relationship is one that culture references. The clothes we choose to 
wear act as social and cultural signifiers, by which others know us, and 
one of the most prominent indicators is whether or not they are 
fashionable. As individuals, we cannot escape fashion: whether we choose 
to embrace or ignore it, we make a statement about where we stand, and 
how we wish to be valued.


Membership of fashionable society feeds our psychological need to 
belong, and can provide the key to power and influence, fuelling our 
fascination and making it difficult to resist. In literature, 
fashionable society is often used as a metaphor for superficiality and 
self-obsessiveness. In his novels, Thackeray often attacked the 
frivolity of fashionable society, yet he was drawn to it and was very 
much a part of it himself. We have seen its impact throughout history 
and across cultures. Its influence is pervasive; it has, for example, 
shaped the development of cities: parks, pleasure gardens, theatres, 
have all been prompted by the prevailing nature of social assembly – and 
fashion has responded by inventing new modes of dress for all of these 
activities.


Fashionable society, then, embraces a wide range of activities and 
relates to many subject areas. We invite submissions from any discipline 
for academic papers or posters that address the conference theme. Topics 
include, but are not restricted to:

  * Fashion, society and power
  * Fashion tribes
  * Fashionable society in history
  * Fashion and character in literature
  * Costume and the depiction of fashionable society
  * Representations of fashion in painting, photography and film

Abstracts of up to 250 words are invited. They should be written in 
English, giving a brief outline of the paper including aims, 
methodology, findings, and conclusion.

Submissions for CCD2019 are being managed using EasyChair. If you do not 
already have an account, you will be prompted to sign up on your first 
access (there is no charge for this).

To submit an abstract, log in to the EasyChair website for CCD2019 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccd2019 and click on the “New 
Submission” link at the top left of the menu bar. Follow the on screen 
instructions and fill out all of the required information. Click on the 
“Submit” link to submit your abstracts. Please do not submit the full 
paper at this stage.


*Deadline for submission of abstracts: extended to* *2**8 February 2019*

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For more details, visit our website <http://ccd2019.org/> at 
www.ccd2019.org <http://www.ccd2019.org> and follow us on twitter 
@CCD_conference

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