Fashion and Motherhood

Laura Snelgrove is an editor for academic and scholarly work. She works as an independent fashion studies scholar researching and writing for digital projects, has previously taught university courses in fashion studies and is the editor-in-chief of The Fashion Studies Journal.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Fashion and Motherhood: Introduction

Part I: Image
Introduction
Mediated Role Models
Introduction
1. Dress to Repress: Fashioning Motherhood in Semi-Authoritarian Hong Kong
Pui-sze Leung and Kin-long Tong
2. Beyoncé: Mistress of Slaying Oshun
Darnell-Jamal Lisby
3. The Hidden Life of Kylie: Fashioning a Private (and Privatized) Celebrity Pregnancy
Maureen Lehto Brewster
Fictional Mothers Onscreen
Introduction
4. The Fashionable Mother as Dangerous Contradiction in Telugu Film
Indira Jalli
5. Fashion and Motherhood at War: A Costume Analysis of The Zookeeper’s Wife
Morolake Dairo
6. The Fascinance of the Maternal Gaze: Kate and Laura Mulleavy’s Woodshock
Kimberly Lamm

Part II: Material
Introduction
7. “The Corset Crusade”: Dress Reformers and the Maternity Corset
Karen Case
8. Design for Borderline Bodies
Lauren Downing Peters
9. Mother’s Milk Is Best of All: Breastfeeding Garments from 1880 to 1930
Claire Salmon
10. Rei Kawakubo and the Bound Pregnant Body
Katrina Orsini

Part III: Identity
Introduction
11. “Mommy Fashion is Still Fashion”: U.S. Style Guides for Pregnant Women and Mothers in the Twenty-First Century
Holly Kent
12. Out of Time: Constant Change, Maternity Dressing, and Pregnancy in Lockdown
Sarah Garland
13. “Ole Rag ‘n’ Lumber”: Intergenerational, Gendered, and Classed Relationships with Clothing, from Rag ‘n’ Bone to Depop
Liza Betts

Appendix: Sexy Mamas: Liz Lange and the Golden Age of Designing for Pregnancy
Pamela Roskin

List of Contributors
Index