R.L. Blaszczyk’s scientific contributions

... I therefore understand fashion as material culture, defined as "a visual and material system of symbols and meanings" (Lee Blaszczyk 2008, p. 3) associated with practices of dress and adornment that include the production, circulation, consumption, and transformation of clothing, footwear, and accessories. This definition conceives of fashion as "the systematic, normative reserve from which the individual draws their own clothing" (Barthes 2005, p. 8;also, Paulicelli 2004;Steele 1997a, b), not as the seasonal production of novelty and change (Aspers and Godard 2013;Entwistle 2000;Lee Blaszczyk 2008;Tranberg Hansen 2004) as it is commenonly understood. More in particular, in the context of this article I will refer to the sartorial system of symbols and meanings that shaped Cuba's "revolutionary" etiquette in opposition to the "bourgeois" forms of dress. ...

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Thinking politics and fashion in 1960s Cuba: How not to judge a book by its cover