Author: Jennifer Sturman
Publisher: Red Dress Ink
Keywords: ink, dress, red, novels, hunt
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-12-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0373895704
ISBN-13: 9780373895700
Meeting the in-laws was the least of her problems...There’s nothing like being the guest of honor at an engagement party to remind a person she has commitment issues, but Rachel Benjamin has finally put her neuroses behind her. A weekend with her fiance, Peter, and his parents will put her skills to the test, but she’s confident they’ll never guess how new she is to normal relationships.Then Rachel receives a cryptic message: her friend Hilary is missing. Hilary was last seen in the company of Igor "Iggie" Behrenz, a budding internet tycoon with strange fashion sense and even
Authors:Amy de la Haye, Elizabeth B. Wilson,
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Keywords: dress, studies, design, identity, meaning, object, defining
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2000-07-07
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0719053293
ISBN-13: 9780719053290
Contained here is an attractive collection of essays, bringing together contemporary research into the history of dress. The essays reflect how garments may be researched as discrete objects, as part of consumer culture, and as components of created meaning which are expressive of personal identity and social belonging.
Authors:Judith Perani, Norma H. Wolff,
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: dress, culture, africa, art, cloth, patronage
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-03-01
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 185973295X
ISBN-13: 9781859732953
Drawing examples from a wide range of African cultures, this ground-breaking book expands the continuing discourse on the aesthetic and cultural significance of cloth, body and dress in Africa and moves beyond contextual analysis to consider the broader application of cloth and dress to art forms in other media. In blending the concerns of Art History and Anthropology, the authors focus on the art patronage systems that stimulate production, consumption, commodification and cultural meaning, and emphasize the overriding importance of cloth to aesthetic and cultural expression in African societ
Author: Linda Welters
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: dress, fertility, culture, protection, anatolia, europe, folk, beliefs
Number of Pages: 243
Published: 1999-11-01
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 1859732879
ISBN-13: 9781859732878
Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2000.Relationships between dress and the body have existed in European and Anatolian folk cultures well into the twentieth century. Traditional cultures have long held the belief that certain articles of dress could protect the body from harm by warding off the ’evil eye,’ bring fertility to new brides, or assure human control of supernatural powers. Ritual fringes, archaic motifs, and colors such as black and red were believed to have powerful, magical effects.This absorbing and interdisciplinary book examines dress in a broad ra
Authors:Sandra Niessen, Ann Marie Leshkowich, Carla Jone,
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: dress, culture, asian, globalization, fashion, orienting
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 1859735398
ISBN-13: 9781859735398
From ‘Indo chic’ collections on the catwalk to mass-market clothes in retail shops, Asian fashion is everywhere. Re-Orienting Fashion explores this phenomenon in a global context and, unlike other books, does not ignore the western / non-western divide. How do western economic, cultural, political, iconic, and social forms influence Asian fashion when (and often because) that fashion is an expression of resistance against western encroachment? How does dress reflect state ideals and gender roles in nations struggling to construct new identities informed by modern, western impulses? What
Authors:Kim K. P. Johnson, Susan J. Torntore, Joanne B. Eich
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: dress, fashion, culture, writings, foundations
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-06-01
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 185973619X
ISBN-13: 9781859736197
It is easy to view fashion as an entirely modern concept. Costume historians, in fact, trace the birth of fashion back to the thirteenth century and writings on fashion date back as early as the sixteenth century. This classic fashion writing has profoundly shaped our understanding of modern day dress—from the psychology of clothes to collective fashion trends. Its impact, however, has not previously been recognized. Fashion Foundations fills this major gap in the history of the discipline. This key text reprints a collection of pioneering fashion statements. Vital yet sometimes ignor
Authors:Gavin Smith, Alexandra Warwick, Dani Cavallaro,
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: dress, culture, boundaries, frame, fashioning
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 1859739865
ISBN-13: 9781859739860
The body has been the focus of much recent critical attention, but the clothed body less so. In answering the need to theorize dress, this book provides an overview of recent scholarship and presents an original theory of what dress means in relation to the body. Identity relies on boundaries to individuate the self. Dress challenges boundaries: it frames the body and serves both to distinguish and connect self and ‘Other’. The authors argue that clothing is, then, both a boundary and not a boundary, that it is ambiguous and produces a complex relation between self and ‘not self’. In
