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<p>Foreword ix<br /> <i>Jennifer Baumgardner</i></p> <p>Acknowledgments xiii</p> <p>Introduction 1<br /> <i>Jessica Wolfendale and Jeanette Kennett</i></p> <p><b>Part 1 Being Fashionable and Being Cool 13</b></p> <p>1 What Makes Something Fashionable? 15<br /> <i>Anya Farennikova and Jesse Prinz</i></p> <p>2 Fashion, Illusion, and Alienation 31<br /> <i>Nick Zangwill</i></p> <p>3 Tryhards, Fashion Victims, and Effortless Cool 37<br /> <i>Luke Russell</i></p> <p><b>Part 2 Fashion, Style, and Design 51</b></p> <p>4 The Aesthetics of Design 53<br /> <i>Andy Hamilton</i></p> <p>5 Share the Fantasy: Perfume Advertising, Fashion, and Desire 70<br /> <i>Cynthia A. Freeland</i></p> <p>6 Computational Couture: From Cyborgs to Supermodels 88<br /> <i>Ada Brunstein</i></p> <p><b>Part 3 Fashion, Identity, and Freedom 103</b></p> <p> 7 Wearing Your Values on Your Sleeve 105<br /> <i> Daniel Yim</i></p> <p> 8 Fashion and Sexual Identity, or Why Recognition Matters 120<br /> <i> Samantha Brennan</i></p> <p> 9 Slaves to Fashion? 135<i><br /> Lauren Ashwell and Rae Langton</i></p> <p>10 Fashion Dolls and Feminism: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Barbie? 151<br /> <i>Louise Collins</i></p> <p><b>Part 4 Can We Be Ethical and Fashionable? 167</b></p> <p>11 Sweatshops and Cynicism 169<br /> <i>Matthew F. Pierlott</i></p> <p>12 Women Shopping and Women Sweatshopping: Individual Responsibility for Consumerism 18<br /> <i>Lisa Cassidy</i></p> <p>13 A Taste for Fashion 199<br /> <i>Marguerite La Caze</i></p> <p>Notes on Contributors 215</p>

<p>“Summing Up: Recommended.  Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students; general readers.  (<i>Choice</i>, 1 August 2012)</p> <p>"All in all, this is a valuable text not just because of the marriage of the academic with the everyday, but because of the diverse issues that it touches on. It's a well-rounded effort and even the most jaded fashion person will find something new between its covers." (The Licentiate, 26 September 2011)</p> <p> </p>

<b>Editors<br /> </b><b>Jessica Wolfendale</b> is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at West Virginia University, and perhaps a little too fond of vintage clothing. She is the author of <i>Torture and the Military Profession</i> (2007) and has published extensively on the ethics of torture, military ethics, and applied ethics. <p><b>Jeanette Kennett</b> is Professor of Moral Psychology at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She is the author of <i>Agency and Responsibility</i> (2001) and has published widely on topics including empathy, addiction, self-control, , advertising, and love and friendship.</p> <p><b>Series Editor<br /> </b><b>Fritz Allhoff</b> is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at Western Michigan University, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at The Australian National University's Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. In addition to editing the <i>Philosophy for Everyone</i> series, Allhoff is also the volume editor or co-editor for several titles, including <i>Wine & Philosophy</i> (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), <i>Whiskey & Philosophy</i> (with Marcus P. Adams, Wiley, 2009), and <i>Food & Philosophy</i> (with Dave Monroe, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007). His academic research interests engage various facets of applied ethics, ethical theory, and the history and philosophy of science.</p>

Most of us realize that fashion is more than just clothes.  It's not just about wearing what's in. Fashion influences our judgments of people's taste, politics, sexuality, class, religion, and even their moral character. It can be a medium for technological and social change – changes in fashion may signal economic and political shifts. <p>Yet fashion can also trap us. We can be slaves to fashion if we feel trapped by the roles dictated by the clothes we wear, and we can be slaves to fashion, literally, as in the case of sweatshop workers who make most of the clothes we wear today.</p> <p>This book explores the diverse and sometimes contradictory aspects of fashion in a series of lively, entertaining thoughtful essays from prominent philosophers and writers. Topics include:</p> <ul> <li>What is fashion?</li> <li>How do we know what is fashionable?</li> <li>Who decides what's cool and what's not?</li> <li>How is it that clothes shape people the way they do?</li> <li>Why does fashion have the power it does?</li> </ul> <p>You won't look at your wardrobe in the same light again!</p>

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