The Religious Life of Dress

Lynne Hume

• Paperback | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• From clothing to the painted and scarified nude body, through overt, public display or esoteric symbols known only to the initiated, dress can convey ... Lees meer

Appearance and Power

• Paperback | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• Appearance has repeatedly been shown to have a potent and immediate effect on others in a wide range of circumstances. In particular, the consequences... Lees meer

Quilting

Marybeth C Stalp

• Paperback | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• Quilting, once regarded as a traditional craft, has broken through the barriers of history, art and commerce to become a global phenomenon, internatio... Lees meer

The Clothed Body

Patrizia Calefato

• Paperback | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• Dress is everywhere imbued with symbols that reflect different meanings in different contexts. This compelling book convincingly demonstrates how clot... Lees meer

Consuming Fashion

• Paperback | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture | nr. 4
• Clothing the body is one of the most complicated acts of daily existence. When a nun ponders red shoes, an architect knots his bowtie, a lesbian laces... Lees meer

Twentieth-Century American Fashion

Patricia Cunningham, Linda Welters

• Hardcover | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture | nr. 6
• Americans began the twentieth century standing in Europe's sartorial shadow, yet ended by outfitting the world in blue jeans, T-shirts and sneakers. H... Lees meer

Nudity

Ruth Barcan

• Hardcover | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• Nudity features regularly in all major media. So why is it illegal to appear naked in public? Nudity has always been paradoxical. In modern consumer c... Lees meer

The National Fabric

Alison Goodrum

• Hardcover | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• British fashion is characterized by oppositions: punk versus pageantry, anarchy versus monarchy, Cool Britannia versus Rule Britannia. Why has British... Lees meer

Re-Orienting Fashion

• Hardcover | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• When Hong Kong entrepreneur David Tang opened his Shanghai Tang boutique on New York's Madison Avenue, it was not an isolated example of the globaliza... Lees meer

Hang-Ups

Benjamin Linley Wild

• Hardcover | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• The Covid-19 pandemic heightened people's awareness of long-standing inequalities within the fashion industry. Amid calls for greater accountability a... Lees meer

Fashioning the Victorians

• Hardcover | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• Offering a unique anthology of primary texts, this sourcebook opens a window on the writing that shaped and mirrored Victorian fashion, taking us from... Lees meer

Goth

Paul Hodkinson

• Paperback | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• Goths represent one of the most arresting, distinctive and enduring subcultures of recent times. The dedication of those involved to a lifestyle which... Lees meer

Orlan

Kate Ince

• Paperback | Dress, Body, Culture
• In the 1990s, the performance artist Orlan embarked on a project of body modification through plastic surgery to transform herself into a pastiche of ... Lees meer

Religion, Dress and the Body

• Paperback | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• Religions constrain the bodies of their members through dress. In many cases, dress immediately identifies a member of the community to the outside wo... Lees meer

Twentieth-Century American Fashion

• Paperback | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture | nr. 6
• Americans began the twentieth century standing in Europe's sartorial shadow, yet ended by outfitting the world in blue jeans, T-shirts and sneakers. H... Lees meer

Cloth, Dress and Art Patronage in Africa

Judith Perani, Norma Wolff

• Hardcover | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• Drawing examples from a wide range of African cultures, this ground-breaking book expands the continuing discourse on the aesthetic and cultural signi... Lees meer

Through the Wardrobe

• Paperback | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• Relating to clothes is a fundamental experience in the lives of most Western women. Even when choice is fraught with ambivalence, clothing matters. Fr... Lees meer

Melville: Fashioning in Modernity

Stephen Matterson

• Hardcover | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• Melville: Fashioning in Modernity considers all of the major fiction with a concentration on lesser-known work, and provides a radically fresh approac... Lees meer

Reconstructing Italian Fashion

Nicola White

• Paperback | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• Despite its long eclipse by Parisian couture, Italian fashion is now celebrated globally for the quality of its tailoring, fabric and design. But an I... Lees meer

The Culture of Sewing

• Paperback | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• Throughout its long history, home dressmaking has been a formative experience in the lives of millions of women. In an age of relative affluence and m... Lees meer

Nazi 'Chic'?

Irene Guenther

• Hardcover | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• This is the first book in English to deal comprehensively with German fashion from World War I through to the end of the Third Reich. It explores the ... Lees meer

Unzipping Gender

Charlotte Suthrell

• Hardcover | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• How does culture shape notions of sexuality and gender? Why are transvestites in the West so often seen as deviant or perverse, while they are accepte... Lees meer

Dress, Fashion and Technology

Phyllis G Tortora

• Paperback | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• Technology has been an essential factor in the production of dress and the cultures of fashion throughout human history. Structured chronologically fr... Lees meer

Porn Chic

Annette Lynch

• Hardcover | Engels | Dress, Body, Culture
• The mainstreaming of pornographic imagery into fashion and popular culture at the turn of the millennium in Britain and the US signalled a dramatic cu... Lees meer