Katarzyna Agnieszka Kociołek is an assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. Her doctoral dissertation (2009) examined the representations of ethnic identities in the British visual arts discourse of the 1980s and 1990s. Her research interests include the representation of identities and the visual culture, which incorporates fashion, film and visual arts

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• INTRODUCTION THEORIES OF FASHION 1.1 Fashion as Communication 1.2 Identity Formation Through Fashion: Gender, Class, Subculture, Age THE METAPHORS WE LIVE IN – DRESS AS A METAPHOR 2.1 Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Fashion 2.2 Seeing Through Clothes – Fashion as Metaphor in Visual Culture SARTORIAL PRACTICES AND METAPHORS IN THE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE BRITISH SUFFRAGETTES AND THE FLAPPERS 3.1 Fashionable Suffragettes 3.2 The Flappers and Their (Mis)representation in the British Media THE UNIFORMED FEMINITY OF THE WARTIME FASHIONS 4.1 Civilians in Uniforms – Sartorial Representations of Female Identity During the WWI 4.2 Utility Fashion and Military Women of WWII THE POST-WAR SUBCULTURAL REBELLION AND WOMEN’S FASHION OF THE TEDDY GIRLS, MODS AND PUNKS 5.1 The Teds Contents105.2 The Mods 5.3 The Punks ANTI-FASHION OF THE SECOND WAVE FEMINISM 6.1 British Second-Wave Feminism, Spare Rib, and Fashion 6.2 Feminist Fashion in Anti-feminist Cartoons POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AND FEMALE FASHION IN THE 1990s 7.1 British Political Institutions and Their Dress Codes as Metaphors 7.2 British Women in Politics: Betty Boothroyd’s Style as a Metaphor of Tradition CONCLUSION Works Cited Index

Katarzyna Agnieszka Kociołek is an assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. Her doctoral dissertation (2009) examined the representations of ethnic identities in the British visual arts discourse of the 1980s and 1990s. Her research interests include the representation of identities and the visual culture, which incorporates fashion, film and visual arts

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• INTRODUCTION THEORIES OF FASHION 1.1 Fashion as Communication 1.2 Identity Formation Through Fashion: Gender, Class, Subculture, Age THE METAPHORS WE LIVE IN – DRESS AS A METAPHOR 2.1 Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Fashion 2.2 Seeing Through Clothes – Fashion as Metaphor in Visual Culture SARTORIAL PRACTICES AND METAPHORS IN THE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE BRITISH SUFFRAGETTES AND THE FLAPPERS 3.1 Fashionable Suffragettes 3.2 The Flappers and Their (Mis)representation in the British Media THE UNIFORMED FEMINITY OF THE WARTIME FASHIONS 4.1 Civilians in Uniforms – Sartorial Representations of Female Identity During the WWI 4.2 Utility Fashion and Military Women of WWII THE POST-WAR SUBCULTURAL REBELLION AND WOMEN’S FASHION OF THE TEDDY GIRLS, MODS AND PUNKS 5.1 The Teds Contents105.2 The Mods 5.3 The Punks ANTI-FASHION OF THE SECOND WAVE FEMINISM 6.1 British Second-Wave Feminism, Spare Rib, and Fashion 6.2 Feminist Fashion in Anti-feminist Cartoons POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AND FEMALE FASHION IN THE 1990s 7.1 British Political Institutions and Their Dress Codes as Metaphors 7.2 British Women in Politics: Betty Boothroyd’s Style as a Metaphor of Tradition CONCLUSION Works Cited Index

Katarzyna Agnieszka Kociołek is an assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. Her doctoral dissertation (2009) examined the representations of ethnic identities in the British visual arts discourse of the 1980s and 1990s. Her research interests include the representation of identities and the visual culture, which incorporates fashion, film and visual arts

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• INTRODUCTION THEORIES OF FASHION 1.1 Fashion as Communication 1.2 Identity Formation Through Fashion: Gender, Class, Subculture, Age THE METAPHORS WE LIVE IN – DRESS AS A METAPHOR 2.1 Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Fashion 2.2 Seeing Through Clothes – Fashion as Metaphor in Visual Culture SARTORIAL PRACTICES AND METAPHORS IN THE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE BRITISH SUFFRAGETTES AND THE FLAPPERS 3.1 Fashionable Suffragettes 3.2 The Flappers and Their (Mis)representation in the British Media THE UNIFORMED FEMINITY OF THE WARTIME FASHIONS 4.1 Civilians in Uniforms – Sartorial Representations of Female Identity During the WWI 4.2 Utility Fashion and Military Women of WWII THE POST-WAR SUBCULTURAL REBELLION AND WOMEN’S FASHION OF THE TEDDY GIRLS, MODS AND PUNKS 5.1 The Teds Contents105.2 The Mods 5.3 The Punks ANTI-FASHION OF THE SECOND WAVE FEMINISM 6.1 British Second-Wave Feminism, Spare Rib, and Fashion 6.2 Feminist Fashion in Anti-feminist Cartoons POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AND FEMALE FASHION IN THE 1990s 7.1 British Political Institutions and Their Dress Codes as Metaphors 7.2 British Women in Politics: Betty Boothroyd’s Style as a Metaphor of Tradition CONCLUSION Works Cited Index