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Fashion and Class

In a new blog post on the CommsWomen platform, Palmer Hayes, a student at the University of Alabama, College of Communication and Information Sciences, analyses an article by Herbert Blumer on fashion and class published by the Sociological Quarterly. From the traditional idea of fashion as a tool for class distinction to a more nuanced…

Fashion and Communication

In a new blog post on the CommsWomen platform, Palmer Hayes, a student at the University of Alabama, College of Communication and Information Sciences, analyses an article on fashion and communication by Malcolm Barnard published by Popular Communication Journal by Routledge. The article “Fashion as Communication Revisited” written by Malcolm Barnard, begins by highlighting fashion’s…

Global sweatshops: The History and future of North-South Solidarity Campaigns in Bangladesh and Beyond by John Trumpbour

In a new blog post on the CommsWomen platform, Maryanna Mays, a student at the University of Alabama, College of Communication and Information Sciences, analyses an article on global sweatshops by John Trumpbour published by Labor History.             John Trumpbour wrote an excellent review article analyzing the literature on global sweatshops. He identified two significant…

The Art of Selling a Fantasy

In a new blog post on the CommsWomen platform, Chloe Wade, a student at the University of Alabama, College of Communication and Information Sciences, analyses an article on luxury fashion advertisements by Paula von Wachenfeldt published in Studies in Communication Sciences.   In the world of luxury fashion, communication is key. Paula von Wachenfeldt’s study,…

Fashion as a Communicator: How What You Wear Tells Us Everything We Need to Know

In a new blog post on the CommsWomen platform, Olivia Taylor, a student at the University of Alabama, College of Communication and Information Sciences, analyses an article on the connection between fashion and communication by Nadzeya Kalbaska, Teresa Sádaba and Lorenzo Cantoni published in Studies in Communication Science journal. In a 2018 article published in…