William R. Scott received his A.B. in History from Dartmouth College in 1992, after having grown up in Canada. He taught in public schools in Los Angeles and San Francisco for seven years. He earned a Ph.D. in American History from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007. Since then, he has taught classes in history, material culture, and social studies education at the University of Delaware.
Professor Scott’s current research focuses upon the transformation in men’s style in the mid-twentieth century. Men replaced the three-piece suit, once a veritable male uniform, with leisurewear on many more occasions. He examines the causes and implications of this shift in vernacular style, which is connected to such divergent phenomena as the emergence of “lifestyle marketing”; the development of modernist design; the ascension of a masculinity defined by consumerism and sexuality; the greater importance of leisure in American culture.
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