Carrot-cut Jeans: An Ethnographic Account of Assertiveness, Embarrassment and Ambiguity in the Figuration of Working-class Male Youth Identities in Berlin

Ege, Moritz

doi:10.2752/9781472504401/globden0011

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“…Structurally, denim jeans have a waist band that holds the waist tighter, emphasizing the "V" shape of a man that enhances masculinity. The rigidity of denim fabric creates a certain stiffness that sticks to the body and restricts fabric movement, enhances the shape of the body and male physique that society has come to expect and emulate (Ege, 2011). The aesthetic of denim is enhanced by "top-stitches," "a shaped crotch," "defined back patch-pocket," "back yoke" and "a defined waist band" (Dant, 2007).…”

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Interpretation of denim by haute couture designers

Mukhopadhyay¹

2023

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This study identified how three high-end couturiers (Dolce & Gabbana, Versace, and Jean Paul Gaultier) incorporate denim in their menswear lines and impose their individual and unique design philosophies or brands,” defined here as an amalgam of the couturiers’ tangible and aesthetic characteristics. The study chose to focus on denim because of its use in the design and production of jeans, one of the most popular articles of casual wear globally. The study compared the couturiers’ output with similar developments in other luxury brand categories, and combined visual and mathematical analysis to clearly identify the couturiers’ signature designs. Study findings may be useful to future designers creating new products.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Interpretation of denim by haute couture designers

Mukhopadhyay¹

2023

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“…Although gaining a broader appeal after the 1930s, the pants have remained a symbolic representation of the idealized, broad-shouldered, industrial working-class men that are found throughout American popular culture (Comstock 2011). Indeed, jeans as a symbol of social class have expanded beyond the borders of North America to influence youth fashion culture throughout Europe and Asia (Ege 2011). In this sense, a story of a boy in blue jeans having his medal stripped away contains undertones of class-conflict within institutionalized, organized sporting competitions.…”

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Social Media, the Folk, and Bizarre Stories of Nova Scotia

Hayes¹,

MacKinnon²

2018

CJMS-RCEM

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This essay recounts a number of so-called “bizarre” news reports from Nova Scotia, and the reactions to them on social media, as a means of exploring the fruitfulness of a digital history approach to regionalism and the idea of the provincial “Folk.” Such stories might be considered a contemporary manifestation of the Folk - albeit one that is presented through a digital medium that creates opportunities for cultural producers and consumers to enter into conversation about the style, context, and meaning of such representations. The essay is exploratory and offers some tentative conclusions - particularly that the phenomenon of "bizarre" news reports from the province is very heavily affected by class conflict, but that social media allows a new generation of cultural producers the means to talk back to Folk representations of Nova Scotia. However, the essay is largely concerned with making a connection between media studies of what has been called “convergence culture” and more traditional studies of Atlantic Canadian society and culture.

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Carrot-cut Jeans: An Ethnographic Account of Assertiveness, Embarrassment and Ambiguity in the Figuration of Working-class Male Youth Identities in Berlin

Cited by 2 publications

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Interpretation of denim by haute couture designers

Interpretation of denim by haute couture designers

Social Media, the Folk, and Bizarre Stories of Nova Scotia

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