A girl's bra - A girl's pride

Akina Sau Han Chow; Wenling Xiao; Wing Sun Liu

A girl's bra - A girl's pride

Akina Sau Han Chow, Wenling Xiao, Wing Sun Liu

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Abstract

Central to the idea of postmodernism is the notion that people are consuming images (Baudrillard, 1998; Debord, 1977) in the market in the crafting of selves (Kondo, 1990; Thompson, 1990). It is envisioned that the sense of fragmented selves (Gergen, 1991) as characterized in the postmodern context is even more acute among youngsters. Of all of the items in a girl's wardrobe, nothing is more important to her identity than her bras. This is a quasi-ethnographic (Fetterman, 1998; Hammersley and Atkinson, 1997) study to explore the symbolic meanings of bras among female adolescents in Hong Kong. There is a strong maternal influence in the very context of the bra; at the same time, the color black for a bra carries a strong connotation of sexiness. This item is full of visually implicit meanings, which are probably explicit to a girl as she is growing up.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings from the 6th Conference on Design and Emotion 2008
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2008
Event	6th Conference on Design and Emotion 2008 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong Duration: 6 Oct 2008 → 9 Oct 2008

Conference

Conference	6th Conference on Design and Emotion 2008
Country/Territory	Hong Kong
City	Hong Kong
Period	6/10/08 → 9/10/08

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Bras
Identity
Post-modernism

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