Queer Style

By Vicki Karaminas, and Adam Geczy

First published in 2013, Queer Style was ahead of its time, offering insight into queer fashionability by addressing the role that clothing has played in historical and contemporary lifestyles, as well as those coming to subculture from sociology and cultural studies.

It was the first book to address the cultural, political, and material histories of clothes as signs and markers of gender and sexual identity. From a fashion studies perspective, it examines the function of subcultural dress within queer communities and the mannerisms and messages that are used as signifiers of identity. Divided into three main sections on history, subcultural identity, and subcultural style, diverse dress is examined, including effeminate 'pansy,' masculine macho 'clone,' the 'lipstick' and 'butch' lesbian styles, and the extreme styles of drag kings and drag queens. It remains key reading for scholars and students across fashion studies and the humanities more broadly.

Bloomsbury, 2013, softcover, 9 x 6 inches, 208 pages.