Suggested Reading:
Clothing and Fashion
- Barnard, Malcolm (1996)
Fashion as Communication. London: Routledge
- Barnes, Ruth & Joanne B Eicher (Eds) (1993)
Dress and Gender: Making and Meaning. Providence, RI: Berg (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Barthes, Roland (1985)
The Fashion System (trans. Matthew Ward & Richard Howard). London: Jonathan Cape
- Barthes, Roland (2006)
The Language of Fashion (trans. Andy Stafford). Oxford: Berg
- Benwell, Bethan (Ed) (2003)
Masculinity and Men's Lifestyle Magazines. Oxford: Blackwell (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Buckley, Cheryl & Hilary Fawcett (2002)
Fashioning the Feminine: Representation and Women's Fashion from the Fin de Siécle to the Present. London: Tauris
(not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Calefato, Patrizia (2004)
The Clothed Body. Oxford: Berg
- Chandler, Daniel (2007)
Semiotics: The Basics (2nd Edn.). London: Routledge
- Chapman, Rowena & Jonathan Rutherford (Eds) (1996)
Male Order: Unwrapping Masculinity. London: Lawrence & Wishart (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Crane, Diana (2000)
Fashion and its Social Agendas. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Danesi, Marcel (1994)
Cool: The Signs and Meanings of Adolescence. Toronto: University of Toronto Press
- Davis, Fred (1992)
Fashion, Culture and Identity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- de la Haye, Amy & Cathie Dingwall (1996)
Surfers, Soulies, Skinheads & Skaters: Subcultural Style from the Forties
to the Nineties. London: V & A (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Edwards, Tim (1997)
Men in the Mirror: Men's Fashion, Masculinity and Consumer Society. London: Cassell (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Entwhistle, Joanne & Elizabeth Wilson (Eds) (2001)
Body Dressing. Oxford: Berg (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Ferguson, Marjorie (1983)
Forever Feminine: Women's Magazines and the Cult of Femininity. London: Heinemann
- Goldman, Robert and Stephen Papson (1998)
Nike Culture: The Sign of the Swoosh (Core Cultural Icons). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
- Hebdige, Dick (1988)
Hiding in the Light. London: Routledge
- Hebdige, Dick (1979)
Subculture: The Meaning of Style. London: Methuen (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Hollander, Anne (1978)
Seeing Through Clothes. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Horrocks, Roger (1995)
Male Myths and Icons: Masculinity in Popular Culture. London: Macmillan (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Jackson, Peter, Nick Stevenson & Kate Brooks (2001)
Making Sense of Men's Magazines. Cambridge: Polity (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Jobling, Paul (1999)
Fashion Spreads: Word and Image in Fashion Photography since 1980. Oxford: Berg (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Johnson, Kim K P & Sharron J Lennon (Eds) (1999)
Appearance and Power. Oxford: Berg (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Kaiser, Susan B (1997)
The Social Psychology of Clothing: Symbolic Appearances in Context (2nd Edn). New York: Fairchild (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Kidwell, Claudia Brush & Valerie Steele (Eds) (1989)
Men and Women: Dressing the Part. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Lurie, Alison (1981)
The Language of Clothes. London: Heinemann (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Malossi, Giannino (2000)
Material Man: Masculinity, Sexuality, Style. New York: Abrams (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Marsh, Graham & Paul Trynka (2002)
Denim: From Cowboys to Catwalks - A Visual History of the World's Most Legendary Fabric. London: Aurum Press (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Mort, Frank (1996)
Cultures of Consumption. New York: Routledge (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Nardi, Peter (Ed) (2000)
Gay Masculinities. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Nixon, Sean (1996)
Hard Looks: Masculinities, Spectatorship and Contemporary Consumption. New York: St Martin's Press (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Roach, Mary Ellen & Joanne Bubolz Eicher (Eds) (1965)
Dress, Adornment and the Social Order. New York: John Wiley (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Roach-Higgins, Mary Ellen, Joanne B Eicher & Kim K P Johnson (Eds) (1995)
Dress and Identity. New York: Fairchild (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Robinson, Julian (1988)
Body Packaging: A Guide to Human Sexual Display. Sydney: The Watermark Press (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Rubinstein, Ruth P (1995)
Dress Codes: Meanings and Messages in American Culture. Boulder. CO: Westview Press (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Solomon, Michael R (1985)
The Psychology of Fashion. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books/Heath (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
- Wilson, Elizabeth (1985)
Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity. London: Virago (not explicitly semiotic but useful)
Note: Treat with extreme caution sources labelled with this symbol!