Publications

Melissa Bellanta

“Business Fashion: Masculinity, Class and Dress in 1870s Australia”, Australian Historical Studies, 48:2 (2017): 189-212, DOI: 10.1080/1031461X.2017.1300178.

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Melissa Bellanta and Simon Sleight

“The Leary Larrikin: Street Style in Colonial Australia”, Cultural and Social History, 11:2 (2014): 263-283, DOI: 10.2752/147800414X13893661072915

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Melissa Bellanta

Melissa Bellanta, Larrikins: A History (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2012), ch. 5 on Larrikin Street Style

Melissa Bellanta and Peter McNeil (eds)

Special Issue on Fashion, Embodiment and the ‘Making Turn’, Fashion Theory, 23 (2019): DOI: 10.1080/1362704X.2019.1603856

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Lorinda Cramer

‘Rethinking Men’s Dress Through Material Sources: The Case Study of a Singlet’, Australian Historical Studies, 52:3 (2021): 420-442. DOI: 10.1080/1031461X.2020.1772328.

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Lorinda Cramer

‘Friday Essay: The Singlet — A Short History of an Australian Icon’, The Conversation, 4 December 2020.

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Lorinda Cramer

‘Dressed For Success – As Workers Return to the Office, Men Might Finally Shed their Suits and Ties’,  The Conversation, 27 January 2021.

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Lorinda Cramer

‘Relaxed Bodies and Comfortable Clothes: Reframing Masculinity in Post-War Australia’, Gender & History, 33:2 (2021): 390-407. DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12515.

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Lorinda Cramer

‘The politics of the necktie — “colonial noose”, masculine marker or silk status symbol?’, The Conversation, 16 February 2021.

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Lorinda Cramer and Melissa Bellanta

‘”Clothes Shall Mark the Man”: Wearing Suits in Wartime Australia, 1939–1945’, Cultural and Social History, 19:1 (2022): 57-76. DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2022.2031424.

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Lorinda Cramer

‘”This is not a barbeque”: a short history of neckties in the Australian parliament and at work’, The Conversation, 5 August 2022.

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Melissa Bellanta and Lorinda Cramer

‘Tropical Whites: Hegemonic Masculinity and Menswear at the Crossroads of Australia and Asia, 1900–1939’, Gender & History (published online 27 August 2022). DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12640.

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Melissa Bellanta and Lorinda Cramer

‘The Comfort of Things in White Australia: Male Immigrants, Race and the Three-Piece Suit, c.1901–39’, Australian Historical Studies, 54:3 (2023): 483–510. DOI: 10.1080/1031461X.2022.2161587.

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Melissa Bellanta and Lorinda Cramer

‘“WellDressed” in Suits of Australian Wool: The Global Fiber Wars and Masculine Material Literacy, 1950–1965′, Fashion Theory (published online 30 June 2023). DOI: 10.1080/1362704X.2023.2228009.

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