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CHAPTER 1  Both/and (in relation to how fashion is studied)  Understanding fashion and culture requires both/and thinking rather than either or  Can't be change or continuity  Should be change and continuity  Mobius Strip  shows how there is no beginning or end for the ribbon has two sides, and is continuous, and meets at both ends. o It is like a sense of convergence of time and space in a piece of ribbon, because there is no outside, inside  Articulation  is a concept and method in cultural studies. It means to connect or to join, but most importantly to express  Beyond either/or  Beyond essentialist thinking o Ex: Page 4 (guy wearing hat with tux)  Look (appearance style)  appearance style  Subjectivity  How he thinks, what he likes, and how he is able to mix, meld, and express.  Style-Fashion-Dress  A system of concepts  Style  Employing agency for the construction of self through the assembly of garments, accessories and beauty regimes that may or may not be in fashion  Style Narratives  Telling a story by self-telling through clothing and one's choices  Dress  The more neutral term defines as everything that modifies or supplements the body  Fashion Studies & Cultural Studies  Cultural Studies and Fashion Studies are both good concepts. The definitions are similar, but have different connotations. o It seems that culture is a broader concept than fashion, though both emphasize custom  Fashion: is a custom of time  Culture: Custom over time  Fashion and Culture simultaneously go over a continual change and continuity  Essentialism  the belief that things are the way they are because that is "just the way they are"  Culture  The distinctive ideas, customs, social behavior, products or way of life of a particular society , people or period  Fashion  Is defined as style narratives collectively in a flux with time...