{"id":4068,"date":"2018-09-10T08:30:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T07:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=4068"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:13:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:13:37","slug":"no-changing-room-moment-for-men-as-they-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2018\/09\/10\/no-changing-room-moment-for-men-as-they-age\/","title":{"rendered":"No &#8216;changing room moment&#8217; for men as they age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Men, unlike women, do not suffer from the \u2018changing room moment\u2019 when they suddenly realise they are too old for certain types of clothes, according to new research by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/t-v\/twigg-julia.html\">Professor Julia Twigg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Twigg conducted interviews with men aged between 58 and 85 from a variety of social backgrounds and sexual orientations on how they respond to fashion and clothing choices as they age.\u00a0 The research, entitled &#8216;<em>Dress, gender and the embodiment of age: men and masculinities&#8217;<\/em>, had been published in the journal Ageing and Society.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/culture\/19152\/no-changing-room-moment-for-men-as-they-age\">University news item<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/ageing-and-society\/article\/dress-gender-and-the-embodiment-of-age-men-and-masculinities\/8B4C744C3B76AAD6AE34BDF2828F1C56\">Ageing and Society journal article<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men, unlike women, do not suffer from the \u2018changing room moment\u2019 when they suddenly realise they are too old for certain types of clothes, according &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2018\/09\/10\/no-changing-room-moment-for-men-as-they-age\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7098,"featured_media":2959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[43783,124,70,25252],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4069,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions\/4069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}