The culture of fashion: A new history of fashionable dress
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This illustrated survey of 600 years of fashion investigates its cultural and social meanings from medieval Europe to 20th-century America. It provides a guide to the changes in style and taste, and challenges existing fashion histories, showing that clothes have always played a pivotal role in defining a sense of identity and society, especially when concerned with sexual and body politics. With a chronological structure, each chapter focuses on both male and female fashion of a specific period, covering its fascinating developments. It discusses: androgynous dressing; body piercing; fabrics, clothing and the rise of city life; dress, and the changing shape of the human body; controversies surrounding trousers and leg wear for both men and women; exposure of flesh; fashion and social status; and the dissemination of fashion through travel, film, magazines and catwalk shows.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0719041252
ISBN13:9780719041259
Release Date:March 1995
Publisher:Manchester University Press
Length:264 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.6" x 9.2"
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The Best Book I've found on this subject
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If you're interested in fashion, fashion history, design history, pretty pictures of clothes, and/or how commerce and social values affect style, you must get this book.
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