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  • Wartime Fashion

    From Haute Couture to Homemade, 1939-1945

    de Geraldine Howell ...
    A comprehensive analysis of Second World War dress practice and appearance, this study places dress at the forefront of a complex series of cultural chain reactions.As lives were changed by the conditions of war, dress continued to reflect important visual narratives regarding class, gender and taste that would impact significantly on public consciousness of equality, fairness and morale. Using ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

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  • The Dictionary of Fashion History

    de C. W. Cunnington, P. E. Cunnington, Ms Valerie Cumming ...
    - What is an earthquake gown?- Who wore eelskin masher trousers?- What did the word "dudes" mean in the 16th century?A Dictionary of English Costume by C. Willett Cunnington, Phillis Cunnington and Charles Beard was originally published in 1960. A monumental achievement and encyclopaedic in scope, it was a comprehensive catalogue of fashion terms from the mid-medieval period up to 1900. It was ... Leer más

    $121.99 USD

  • Fashion

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Rebecca Arnold ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Fashion is a dynamic global industry that plays an important role in the economic, political, cultural, and social lives of an international audience. It spans high art and popular culture, and plays a significant role in material and visual culture. This book introduces fashion's myriad influences and manifestations. Fashion is explored as a creative force, a business, and a means of ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Sustainable Fashion

    Past, Present and Future

    de Jennifer Farley Gordon, Colleen Hill ...
    Sustainable Fashion provides a unique and accessible overview of fashion ethics and sustainability issues of the past, present and future. This book is the first to situate today's eco-fashion movement in its multifaceted historical context, investigating the relationship between fashion and the environment as far back as the early nineteenth century.Employing an expanded definition of ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Gloves and Glove-making

    de Mike Redwood ...
    Series Libro 812 - Shire Library
    From workaday marigolds to hand-wear custom crafted for the Queen, gloves perform many functions – insulation from the cold, protection from injury, and even ceremonial roles.Gloves have been used since prehistoric times, but in Britain their use as formal and fashion items took off during Elizabeth I's reign, and played a surprisingly significant cultural role well into the nineteenth century. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Fashion Victims

    The Dangers of Dress Past and Present

    de Alison Matthews David ...
    From insidious murder weapons to blaze-igniting crinolines, clothing has been the cause of death, disease and madness throughout history, by accident and design. Clothing is designed to protect, shield and comfort us, yet lurking amongst seemingly innocuous garments we find hats laced with mercury, frocks laden with arsenic and literally 'drop-dead gorgeous' gowns.Fabulously gory and gruesome, ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Fetish Style

    de Frenchy Lunning ...
    Series series Subcultural Style
    Fetish Style traces the history, forms and tendencies of sub-cultural fashions that are popular in both mainstream and alternative fashion cultures.Presenting the world of subcultural fetish clothing design in all of its richness and beauty, this book explores the idea of fetish as subversive and repressive as reflected in clothing choices in people of all ages and cultures. Linking the ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • The Chinese Fashion Industry

    An Ethnographic Approach

    de Jianhua Zhao ...
    Series series Dress, Body, Culture
    Less than three decades ago, when the Chinese bought cloth or clothes, they would have had to use a government-issued coupon. Today the Chinese fashion industry is one of the most dynamic in the world - it not only supplies fashions to the increasingly discerning domestic market, but also provides one-third of the clothing sold in the global market. How did this phenomenal transition come about? ... Leer más

    $121.99 USD

  • Consumptive Chic

    A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease

    de Professor Carolyn A. Day ...
    During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular 'moment' in which perceptions of the consumptive disease became inextricably tied to contemporary concepts of beauty, playing out in the clothing fashions of the day. With the ravages of the illness widely regarded as conferring beauty on the sufferer, it became commonplace to regard tuberculosis as a positive affliction, one to ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Fashion and Art

    Edición de Adam Geczy, Vicki Karaminas ...
    For at least two centuries, fashion and art have maintained a competitive love-hate relationship. Both fashion and art construct imaginary worlds, and use a language of style to invigorate beliefs, perceptions and ideas.Until now the crossovers of fashion and art have received only scattered treatment and suffered from a dearth of theorization. As an attempt to theorize the area, this collection ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion

    New Perspectives from Europe and North America

    Introducing innovative new research from international scholars working on Islamic fashion and its critics, Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion provides a global perspective on muslim dress practices. The book takes a broad geographic sweep, bringing together the sartorial experiences of Muslims in locations as diverse as Paris, the Canadian Prairie, Swedish and Italian bath houses and former ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Street Style

    An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging

    de Brent Luvaas ...
    Series series Dress, Body, Culture
    Winner of the 2019 John Collier Jr AwardStreet style blogging has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity over the last decade. Amateur photographers, often with no formal training in fashion, have become critical arbiters of taste and trends, influencing the representations that appear in magazines and on runways, and putting new cities on the fashion world map. This cutting-edge book documents ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD