Dress was not, by and large, seen through the lens of age and there was not the sense of cultural exile that had marked many of the women's responses. Second, men's responses were less affected by cultural codes in relation to age. Age was less a point of challenge or change than for many women.
First that men's responses to dress were marked by continuity both with their younger selves and with mainstream masculinity, of which they still felt themselves to be part. The study explores the role of clothing in the constitution of embodied masculinity in age, contrasting its results with an earlier study of women.
