A Clean Sharp Image
Canadian sports commentator Don Cherry is notorious for his outspoken opinions and flamboyant style, both attracting popular attention. This article examines his attention-grabbing on-air style as an extension of both his values for the game of hockey and his view of himself as a working-class boy m...
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University of Alberta
2018-12-01
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| description | Canadian sports commentator Don Cherry is notorious for his outspoken opinions and flamboyant style, both attracting popular attention. This article examines his attention-grabbing on-air style as an extension of both his values for the game of hockey and his view of himself as a working-class boy made good. I argue that Cherry deliberately uses his suits to embody his social and personal values. Drawing on fashion studies approaches, I show that while not exactly fashionable in terms of trendiness, Cherry’s suits are examples of the ability of clothing to be indexical of working-class personality transformed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dcfc9ce30ee84699a725f0ea64fc7a892022-12-22T00:55:07ZengUniversity of AlbertaImaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies1918-84392018-12-0192415410.17742/IMAGE.FCM.9.2.529409A Clean Sharp ImageJulia Petrov0Royal Alberta MuseumCanadian sports commentator Don Cherry is notorious for his outspoken opinions and flamboyant style, both attracting popular attention. This article examines his attention-grabbing on-air style as an extension of both his values for the game of hockey and his view of himself as a working-class boy made good. I argue that Cherry deliberately uses his suits to embody his social and personal values. Drawing on fashion studies approaches, I show that while not exactly fashionable in terms of trendiness, Cherry’s suits are examples of the ability of clothing to be indexical of working-class personality transformed.https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/imaginations/index.php/imaginations/article/view/29409 |
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