Fantastic Man Buttoned-Up edited by Gert Jonkers & Jop van Bennekom

Out of print but can be found on Amazon 

Another of the Penguin series published alongside the London Underground 150^th Anniversary, this one taking a left-field look from that theme.

It explores the meaning of the fashion, common in parts of East London, of wearing the top button of short done up without a tie. This seems like a mirco-topic but turns of to be a rich seam – there is something about restrain and self-control that is expressed by that button – the absence of the tie grabs the attention more that its presence would. Those featured are all white, it is a style that comes form the white-working class neighbourhoods of East London – and there are complexities as the assumptions of masculinity have shifted, in part as work has shifted away from physical labour.