@article{intel:/content/journals/10.1386/fspc.1.3.395_1, author = "Lingham, Vanessa", title = "Exploring the fashion identity of Gypsy and Traveller women: Research problems and processes", journal= "Fashion, Style & Popular Culture", year = "2014", volume = "1", number = "3", pages = "395-412", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1386/fspc.1.3.395_1", url = "https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/fspc.1.3.395_1", publisher = "Intellect", issn = "2050-0734", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "English Gypsy", keywords = "identification", keywords = "culture", keywords = "representation", keywords = "Irish Traveller", keywords = "style-fashion-dress", abstract = "Abstract This article explores the crucial issues of identification, access, participation and documenting addressed within the research design and methodology for my M.A. thesis. Within my thesis I questioned whether English Gypsy and Irish Traveller women’s style-fashion-dress can indeed be culturally defined and fixed collectively by cultural definitions, which are so often deemed to be set by terminology. Reflecting on some of the ‘novice’ research dilemmas I faced within the field of Gypsy and Traveller Studies this article is about first approaches to ethnographic research specifically for new fashion scholars, like myself, engaging with ‘minority’ fashion studies.", }