Dissertation Topics on Culture and Fashion

Dissertation Topics on culture and fashion

• A window into another world: Understanding the fashion icon.
• Imagining Monroe:  A retrospective encounter with one of the world’s most fashionable women.
• Hepburn, De Givenchy and Haute Couture.
• James Dean and the Café Culture.
• Fashioning the Elite: What the life-long friendship between Hubert de Givenchy and Audrey Hepburn brought to the fashion world.
• Mad for Madonna: The high and low fashions of Eighties pop culture.
• If Looks could Kill: Kylie Minogue and the image of the Pop Princess.
• Fashioning an Idol: Boy band culture and teenage clothing.
• Eminently Eminem: Fashions of the rapping culture.
• Glitter, glam, and an expanding waistline: What Elvis brought to the fashion world.
• Beatle Mania and the Sixties look.
• Westwood, Punk, and The Sex Pistols.
• What celebrity culture has done for high street fashion.
• ‘Pride and Prejudice’: How Austen still captures the imaginations of designers today.

• A sense of Englishness: British Fashion through the ages.
• Mods and Rockers and the age of the motorbike.
• Age of Liberalism: 1920’s fashions.
• Fashions of The Second World War.
• Fifties fashions on the streets today.
• The Sixties: Flowers, flares, and fun.
• A discussion of seventies fashion icons and what they brought to the fashion world.
• How Eighties fashions represented political and cultural ideals of the time.
• Young people’s clothing in the Nineties.
• Chasing an illusive dream? Fashions of the future.
• Royal Clothing and the Identities of Monarchs across the World.
• ‘The Cobbler and the Tailor’: Forgotten trades.
• A chronological study of men’s fashion since 1700.
• What we still love about Dickensian fashion.
• Material marriages: The origins and history of the English wedding dress.
• The symbolic aspects of Greco-Roman fashions.
• Ethnic clothing in London; markets and bazaars.
• How important was fashion to the Tudors and Stuarts?
• A History of peasant costume.
• Fools and jesters through the ages.
• A history of women’s shoes.
• Retro is all the rage: A discussion of the influences of retro fashions on today’s fashion industry.
• The advent of Primark: Affordable fashion.

• Sports Clothing: How sportswear has infiltrated the contemporary market
• Labelling and branding: The power of representation
• The power of marketing in the contemporary fashion world
• Clothes for clubbers: The use of alternative materials
• Tartans today: How colours represent ideas
• Tracing the history of fur in fashion
• Hunting wear: Stigmas and tradition
• Shakespearian theatre and the aesthetic image
• Translating Tolkien: Costume from book to screen
• A history of the hat
• Hats and the imagination: Magicians, witches and Ascot
• Changing Times: The closing divide between rural and urban fashions over the last century
• Wigs, rings, and tails: Symbols of power since 1700
• Clothing of importance: The tuxedo and the suit since 1800
• Sci-Fi culture and fashion
• Water and fashion: Swimwear early to contemporary
• The evolution of the ball gown

• The essence of the fairytale: Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and the fashionable imagination.
• What is too short?  A critical analysis of debates surrounding promiscuity and children’s clothing.
• Superheroes: Symbolism and representation in fantastic fashions.
• Halloween: Fashion and the children’s’ imagination.
• Baby Boom: Post-war culture and baby fashion.
• Everyone else is doing it so why can’t We?: An Investigation into the effects of fashion advertising on children.
• Returning to nature: The use of natural-world emblems and symbols in contemporary fashion.
• ‘All the colours of the rainbow’: Exploring why colour matters to fashion.
• The origin of the motif.
• Chains, T-Shirts, and baggy trousers: The meaning of skateboard culture.
• Alice In Wonderland: The decline of the dress in girl’s fashion.
• Fairies and Pixies: Casting a spell on the creative imagination.

• The origins of power dressing.
• Gender representation in men and women’s fashions since the Fifties.
• Adoration and adornment: A critical analysis of the meaning of body art and piercing in western societies.
• The place of fetish wears in contemporary fashion.
• Fashion and religion: An inquiry into the debates surrounding acceptable dress.
• Hair and makeup: Do we really need it?
• Cross-dressing since the Victorians.
• Reality and the subversive: The use of mannequins and models since the Sixties.
• The importance of presentation: Catwalks, lights and cameras.
• Sex, gender and the body in the media.
• Power, Status, Ambition: An analysis of what clothing represents.
• Exploring the relationship between nudists and fashion.
• The habit of a lifetime: Dressing monks and nuns through the ages.
• Trinny, Susannah, and looking good naked.

• A history of the undergarment
• PVC:  Uses and connotations
• Fashion and manmade materials
• The wool trade and its contribution to western fashion
• The history and importance of the bodice
• The eras of the miniskirt
• Public service wear and changing roles
• Materials that matter: An analysis of the changing uses of materials since the 19th Century
• Wool and its uses; from Prehistoric to today
• The dawn of nylon and what it meant for Fifties fashion
• Is it Fair-trading? Cotton and hemp production and its place in British shops
• Current debates surrounding the popularity of leather
• Just what is it about shoes? An ethnographic study into women’s and men’s love of shoes.

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