Male Fashion
Lois Banner looks at coded messages of gender, sexuality and domination that preceded baggy trousers.
Lois Banner looks at coded messages of gender, sexuality and domination that preceded baggy trousers.
Dedicated followers of fashion – or senders of coded messages via the doublet, codpiece and hose? Lois Banner mounts an intriguing investigation of how male clothing reflected changing images of power, gender and sexuality in medieval Europe.