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Subcultural Dress
David Muggleton and Dunja Brill
Source: Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion. West Europe, 2010, Berg Fashion Library
Encyclopedia entry
A subculture can be defined as a group with particular shared cultural features that distinguish it clearly from other subcultures and both the specific milieu (parent culture) and wider society (dominant culture) from which it emerges. The definition of culture on which this notion of a subculture is based is borrowed from anthropology and is taken to mean a whole way of life of a society or particular section thereof, depending on the level of analysis. A subculture can therefore be seen as a d