- Style tribe
A style tribe or fashion tribe is a group of people that dress in a distinctive style to show their membership in this group. [http://www.wwd.com/dictionary/fashion#fashiontribes Women's Wear Daily fashion dictionary] ] [citeweb|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A04E7D61639F934A35752C1A961958260|title=Invoking Tribal Spirits as 90's Muses|author=Constance C. R. White|publisher=
New York Times |date=1997-10-07] Examples include punks, goths, hip-hop devotees, andravers . The term "style tribe" appears to have been coined byanthropologist Ted Polhemus , who analyzed style tribes in terms of the modern primitive and an abandonment of a linear trajectory of progress in fashion. [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19961109/ai_n14080388 Books: Pinned and wriggling | Independent, The (London) | Find Articles at BNET.com ] ] [Maynard, Margaret. "Dress and Globalisation". Manchester UniversityPress (2004), [http://books.google.com/books?id=bkWIHaI1mfsC&pg=PA122&sig=camZ6Ldk9CyEnbxoz5YZH893kfI p122] . ISBN 0719063892.] [Margry, Peter Jan & Herman Roodenburg. "Reframing Dutch Culture: Between Otherness and Authenticity". Ashgate Publishing (2007), [http://books.google.com/books?id=PG53jNVPMFQC&pg=PA13&sig=0dLJ9xMOEw24_sCbYq_hl8gBGk8 p13] . ISBN 0754647056.]References
Further reading
* Polhemus, Ted. "Streetstyle: From Sidewalk to Catwalk". Thames and Hudson (1994). ISBN 050027794X.
* White, Nicola & Ian Griffiths. "The Fashion Business: Theory, Practice, Image". Berg Publishers (2000): [http://books.google.com/books?id=T9yqZnLqMmMC&pg=PA7&sig=CgOeB95tkOsZEsVopBPSJIhmVP0 p7] . ISBN 185973359X.
* Taylor, Lou. "The Study of Dress History". Manchester University Press (2002), [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ca7l3qh8h_YC&pg=PA212&sig=fWONehq8OqtufIm2RFXlGfvsv4w p212] . ISBN 0719040655.
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