Transatlantic Translations of the Button-down Shirt
This article looks at how the button-down shirt has been translated in the American and British contexts. Employing Barthes’ notion of ‘fashion narrative,’ I describe how in the United States, the button-down shirt is closely associated with the Ivy Look, a style that had emerged from the elite Ivy...
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| Language: | English |
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Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta
2014-11-01
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| Series: | TranscUlturAl |
| Online Access: | https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/tc/index.php/TC/article/view/23330 |