TABLE OF CONTENTS

Be Beautiful and Carry a Big Stick: Physical Attractiveness & the Massai Aesthetic
Robert Biswas-Diener

How Much Did You Pay For Your Identity?: The Big Business of Selling Individuality to Kids
Scott Puckett

Strummer: Passion is a Fashion
Antonino D’Ambrosio

WERISE: Clamor Talks with Julie Shaw about the First WERISE Fashion Show
Interview by Jason Kucsma

What's Your Relationship to Fashion?: A Photo Essay
Ailecia Ruscin and Chantel C. Guidry

The X Factor: A Pirate Attack Off Yemen
Zoltan Gyurko

Gangbanging: Analyzing the Phenomenon
RJ Castillo

Ruby Chaton: Stand-out DIY Design
Mollie Wells

American Made: Sweatshops in the USA
Casey Boland

Animal-Free Fashion: A Field Guide to Veganwear
Mickey Z.

Sex or Sweatshops: The Scarlet Harlot Talks about Globalization
and the Rights of Sex Workers
Interview by Mary Christmas

James King is Convenient: In 1996, The New York Times Magazine sent and uncompromising message about the pitfalls of the fashion world. Or did it?
Martin Schneider

After the Last Merger
Fiction by Jeffrey Yamaguchi

Sounds in the Background: Muzak, Backrgound Music, and Unlikely Song Choices
Boone Stigall

Unmitigated Power: Energy Production, Idelogy, and Carolina Power & Light
Jordan Green

The Panther Insurgency
Paul Glavin

In a Chinese Joint
Oscar Tuazon