DEFINING DRESS - Dress as object, meaning and identity

Defining Dress: Dress as Object, Meaning and Identity (Studies in Design)

…………de La Haye, Amy (Editor), and Wilson, Elizabeth (Editor)

This collection of essays brings together many separate but related issues which form the focus of contemporary research into the history of dress. Historically, in Britain at least, investigations of dress were primarily informed by historical and empirical protocols, although the symbolic meaning of dress was explored by anthropologists and sociologists, who tended to concentrate on either non-Western cultures or British or Western sub-cultures. In recent years these approaches have moved closer together partly as a result of the impact of feminism. The essays reflect this moment in the study of fashion, showing how in the late 1990s 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.The partial breakdown of the traditional fashion system has made new approaches to the study of what we wear, how it is created and how we recreate ourselves possible.

Binding: softcover

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Date Published: 1999

ISBN-13: 9780719053290  ISBN: 0719053293

Description: Used: Ex-library with usual stamps and markings. Softcover protected with clear plastic. 160 pages; illustrated with b/w photos and drawings. Good with sound binding, clean pages and stitched pages. Dimensions 24.23 x 17.12 x 1.50 centimetres

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