CONTENTS * Introduction * PART ONE: FASHION TALES AND THE VISUAL IMAGINATION * 1. The Question of Costume: Dressing for Success in the 19th century Novel. Claire Hughes * 2. A Hovering Space: The Mystery of the Fashion Photograph Margaret Maynard, University of Queensland * 3. Fashion and the Art of Class Deception: Clothing and Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century Fiction Rosy Aindow, University of Nottingham * 4. Grisettes, cocottes, and bohèmes: Fashion and Fiction in Octave Tassaert's 'Boudoirs et mansardes' (1828) and 'Les amants et les époux' (1829) Denise Amy Baxter, University of North Texas * 5. Fair Exchange: Novelist as Stylist, Designer as Storyteller Sophia Errey, RMIT, * 6. The Fashioned World of Andrea Zittel Tim Laurence, University of Technology, Sydney * PART TWO: CROSSING CULTURES, QUEERING CULTURES * 7.

Junichiro Tanizaki's 'Naomi' and the Power of Foreign Clothing in Modern Japanese Fiction Toby Slade, Independent Academic, Tokyo * 8. The Fire Sermon: Fashion, Memory and Representation. Adam Aitkin, University of Technology, Sydney * 9. A Conceptual Framework for Brand Storytelling: Creating Context and Meaning for Cargo Pants. Joseph Hancock, Drexel University * 10. Double Brides: Narratives of Desire in the recent 'Wedding Dresses' of lesbian couples. Catherine Harper (University of Brighton, U.K) * 11.

'Collection L' Maja Gunn, Stockholm University * PART THREE: FASHION'S TEXTUAL IDENTITIES * 12. Aesthetic Movement Fashion Reform: Dress and Interiors Marilyn Casto, Virginia Tech University * 13. Holly Golightly and the fashioning of the waif. Gabrielle Finanne, University of New South Wales * 14. Becoming Neo: Costume, Gadgets and Transforming Masculinity in 'The Matrix' films. Sarah Gilligan, Hartlepool College of Further Education * 15. Textile as Sign of Barthes' Bliss Concept within the Texture of Nietzsche, Dagmar Venohr, University of Potsdam * Notes * Bibliography * Index.