What effect does the lack of inclusion of a particular style have on the social and personal identity of someone it excludes?

Drawing from personal experience, author Elizabeth Kealy-Morris explores how the back brace that her scoliosis required excluded her from the socially accepted preppy style of her community, and the effect it had on the way she interacted with her peers. Not Fitting In examines themes of group identity, exclusion, and belonging through style and fashion.

This book is ideal reading for students of Fashion Studies, Disability Studies, Fashion Psychology, and Cultural Anthropology.

Elizabeth Kealy-Morris, PhD, originally from the USA, is Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Fashion Communication at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Elizabeth Kealy-Morris is from Wellesley, a middle-class suburb of Boston, the capital of Massachusetts, located in the northeastern United States in the region known as New England. This area comprises some of the original English colonies. Wellesley is nationally well known as the home of Wellesley College, one of the first higher education institutions to admit women. The college is renowned for its distinguished alumnae, including two U.S. Secretaries of State, Madeleine Albright and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Both the college and the town were depicted in the 2003 film Mona Lisa Smile, which stars Julia Roberts as an art history professor teaching there in the mid-1950s.