This publication sets out to decentre fashion scholarship in menswear by exploring style cultures and design histories in a wider context.

While there has been growing academic interest in menswear in recent years, to date most exhibitions and publications have focused on established fashion centres in the Global North. Meanwhile, despite welcome moves to broaden the geographical scope of fashion studies, few texts seeking to do so concentrate on men's style.

Tracing connections across national and regional borders, Global Masculinities and Dress examines men's style as a transnational and transcultural set of practices in which Korean popular culture inflects upon Central Asian fashion, the image of the American cowboy is rearticulated in Botswana, and textile collecting practices reveal threads of aesthetic influence from South Asia to North Africa. An introductory essay by the book's three editors frames the authors' contributions within the broader context of masculinities studies and post-colonial theory, highlighting themes and concerns in common across the diverse chapters, and chapter contributors to this richly illustrated volume include leading fashion scholars and emerging design practitioners.

Global Masculinities and Dress offers historical perspectives as well reaching to contemporary dress cultures, uncovering stories previously obscured and exploring the practice and representation of men's dress in South America, South and East Asia, South and West Africa and beyond.

Charlie Athill is a lecturer and author. He has taught at institutions including Central Saint Martins, London College of Communication and London College of Fashion, where he is Co-Convenor of the Masculinities Research Hub. Charlie's research focuses on material culture, affect and the senses, gender, age and representation. He has published journal articles in Extreme Anthropology, Senses and Society, Queer Theory in Media and Popular Culture and Critical Studies in Men's Fashion.

Shahidha Bari is Professor of Fashion Cultures and Histories at London College of Fashion. She's the author of Dressed: The Philosophy of Clothes (2019), Look Again: Fashion (2022) and Ken Scott (2022). She is an arts presenter for the BBC, writing regularly for Art Review, Frieze, the Guardian and the TLS. She was the 2016 winner of the Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Criticism and a contributor to Wild Analysis (2022) which won the NAAP Award for Best Edited Collection. She sits on the editorial board of New Formations: Theory, Culture, Politics and Fashion Studies. She has previously been a judge for The Booker Prize and the Baillie Gifford Non-Fiction Prize.

Jay McCauley Bowstead teaches at London College of Fashion (where he is Co-Convenor of the Masculinities Research Hub) and Central Saint Martins. He has published widely on masculinities and their relationship to fashion design and has a research interest in the role of public policy in shaping the creative industries. He is the author of Menswear Revolution: The Transformation of Contemporary Men's Fashion (Bloomsbury, 2018) and sits on the editorial board of Critical Studies in Men's Fashion and Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty.