Fashion and Dress in UNAUSTRALIA

CSAA 2006 Conference Workshop:

The conference will host a two-day workshop under the theme of “Fashion and Dress in UNAUSTRALIA”. The workshop is designed to bring together academics, writers and creators with an interest in the topic of: trends in fashion and dress in Australia; body-clothing relations; Australian fashion and dress in the global context; the politics of fashion and dress; and issues of design, production and consumption.

Selected papers from this workshop will be published in a special issue of the journal, Fashion Theory, published by Berg publishers.

Address queries to the workshop convener: Professor Jennifer Craik (Jennifer.Craik@canberra.edu.au)

Electronic Proceedings :

THE UNAUSTRALIA PAPERS / Fashion and Dress in UNAUSTRALIA conference workshop

ISBN 1740882539. © Individual Authors, 2006.

Papers from the workshop's refereed stream:

Papers

1. The Detail: Setting Fashion Systems in Motion, by Prue Black (University of Technology, Sydney)

2. The Australian-ness of Australian Fashion and Dress, by Jennifer Craik (University of Canberra)

3. Fashion and social context in Un-Australia, by India Flint (RMIT University)

4. Trainers: The Worlds at our Feet and the multiple investments in high performance shoe technology, by Alison Gill (University of Western Sydney)

5. British and UnBritish fashion: Authoring National Identity in Anglo-Japanese Fashion Exports, by Alison L Goodrum (Manchester Metropolitan University)

6. For The Sake Of Beauty, Becoming Ornament And Other Guilty Pleasures, by Kirsten Hudson

7. What size am I: Decoding women’s clothing size, by Kate Kennedy

8. Clothing and Identity – The Adoption of an Australian Uniform, by Marlene Little (University of Central England)

9. What is ‘Australian’ fashion photography? – A Dilemma, by Margaret Maynard (University of Queensland)

10. Undressing Kellerman, Uncovering Broadhurst: the Modern Woman and ‘UnAustralia’, by Jinna Tay and Christine Schmidt (Queensland University of Technology)

11. Fair Go Fashion – Human Rights and Fair Trade in Australia, by Sue Thomas (RMIT University)

The UNAUSTRALIA conference committee gratefully acknowledges the support of: