<i>Katy Keene</i> as a Ludic Site for Fashion and Self-Fashioning
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article explores child readers of the Katy Keene comic as creators and designers of playful fashion. When Katy Keene launched in 1949, the editor, Bill Woggon, invited child readers to become co-creators of the comic’s content, calling on them to suggest storylines and to submit original designs for the clothes and accessories that Katy wore. Each published design included a line of text crediting the designer, and special issues featured profiles and photographs of readers, placing them centre stage in the comic alongside their heroine Katy. The paper dolls included in the comic invited further creative play, encouraging readers to continue the game of dressing Katy, America’s “Queen of Pin-Ups and Fashions,” at home. In this way, Katy Keene offered opportunities for both fashioning and self-fashioning, becoming a ludic space where children played with ideas and images of fashion, mixing pieces inspired by haute couture with outlandish inventions of their own. I argue that by enabling children to become creators of fashions, Katy Keene offered young readers the opportunity to develop their own aesthetic sense—both individually and as a community.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.018 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".