Fashion & society books

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Fashionable Childhood: Children in Advertising

Fashionable Childhood: Children in Advertising

Author: Professor Annamari Vänskä (Aalto University, Finland) ,  Eva Malkki (Independent Translator, Finland)
ISBN: 9781472568441
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Fashionable Childhood is the first book to critically examine representations of children and childhood through...  Read More >>

Fashion Notes: Thoughts of a Confident Fashionista

Fashion Notes: Thoughts of a Confident Fashionista

Author: Tearra M Boone
ISBN: 9781548719746
Format: Paperback
$26.40

Fashion poetry of every thing every fashionista or fashionisto has ever thought.  Read More >>

Kit: Fashioning the Sporting Body

Kit: Fashioning the Sporting Body

Author: Jean Williams (De Montfort University, UK)
ISBN: 9781138085640
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This book gives an introductory overview of the historical and contemporary issues as it does for the growing number...  Read More >>

So Pretty / Very Rotten: Comics and Essays on Lolita Fashion and Cute Culture

So Pretty / Very Rotten: Comics and Essays on Lolita...

Author: Jane Mai ,  An Nguyen
ISBN: 9781927668436
Format: Paperback
$33.61

A short story and essay collection exploring the Japanese fashion subculture, Lolita, by two cartoonists who go...  Read More >>

Inside Vogue: My Diary Of Vogue's 100th Year

Inside Vogue: My Diary Of Vogue's 100th Year

Author: Alexandra Shulman
ISBN: 9780241978375
Format: Paperback
$35.00

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Hats

Hats

Author: Professor Clair Hughes (Formerly of International Christian University, Japan) ,  Susan J Vincent
ISBN: 9780857851611
Format: Hardback
$50.00

A beautifully illustrated history of hats in culture and society from the 18th century to the present day  Read More >>

Reducing Bodies: Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America

Reducing Bodies: Mass Culture and the Female Figure...

Author: Elizabeth M. Matelski
ISBN: 9781138681668
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Reducing Bodies: Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America explores the ways in which women in the years...  Read More >>

Reducing Bodies: Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America

Reducing Bodies: Mass Culture and the Female Figure...

Author: Elizabeth M. Matelski
ISBN: 9781138681644
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Reducing Bodies: Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America explores the ways in which women in the years...  Read More >>

Kimono Design: An Introduction to Textiles and Patterns

Kimono Design: An Introduction to Textiles and Patterns...

Author: Keiko Nitanai
ISBN: 9784805314289
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Kimono Design: An Introduction to Textiles and Patterns  Read More >>

Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity

Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity

Author: Kelly Olson (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
ISBN: 9781138932937
Format: Hardback
$315.00

In Masculinity and Dress in Roman Antiquity Olson argues that clothing functioned as part of the process of communication...  Read More >>

Ocean Liners: Glamour, Speed and Style

Ocean Liners: Glamour, Speed and Style

Author: Daniel Finamore ,  Ghislaine Wood
ISBN: 9781851779062
Format: Hardback
$79.99

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How to Bottom a Welted Shoe By Hand

How to Bottom a Welted Shoe By Hand

Author: F L West
ISBN: 9781473338111
Format: Paperback
$25.85

A series of illustrated lessons on shoe-repair, with a special focus on putting together a plain welted shoe by...  Read More >>

Home Book to Learn Expert Shoe Repairing

Home Book to Learn Expert Shoe Repairing

Author: J M Levinson
ISBN: 9781473338104
Format: Paperback
$23.26

A complete guide to the art of shoe-mending, including a full course on how to do expert shoe repairing from beginning...  Read More >>

How to Repair Shoes

How to Repair Shoes

Author: F L West
ISBN: 9781473338128
Format: Paperback
$25.85

A comprehensive guide to shoe-mending with chapters on necessary equipment, how to use the tools, preparing materials,...  Read More >>

Designing, Cutting and Grading Boot and Shoe Patterns, and Complete Manual for the Stitching Room

Designing, Cutting and Grading Boot and Shoe Patterns,...

Author: C B Hatfield
ISBN: 9781473338272
Format: Paperback
$36.20

First published in 1897, this volume is a complete guide to designing and cutting boot and shoe patterns, published...  Read More >>

The Finishers' Manual - Containing the Receipts of an Expert for Finishing the Bottoms of Boots and Shoe, As Well As Other Valuable Information

The Finishers' Manual - Containing the Receipts of an...

Author: E T Thayer
ISBN: 9781473338142
Format: Paperback
$25.85

A collection of vintage and traditional recipes and instructions for making a variety of stains for finishing leather...  Read More >>

isiShweshwe: A history of the indigenisation of blueprint in South Africa

isiShweshwe: A history of the indigenisation of blueprint...

Author: Juliette Leeb-Du Toit
ISBN: 9781869143145
Format: Paperback
$168.19

The cross-cultural usage of a particular cloth type - blueprint - is central to South African cultural history....  Read More >>

Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion

Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion

Author: Lesley Ellis Miller
ISBN: 9781851779031
Format: Hardback
$59.99

The enigmatic Spanish couturier Cristobal Balenciaga has become a legendary figure in the history of twentieth-century...  Read More >>

Niche Fashion Magazines: Changing the Shape of Fashion

Niche Fashion Magazines: Changing the Shape of Fashion...

Author: Ane Lynge-Jorlen
ISBN: 9781784531478
Format: Hardback
$220.00

The inside story of the glossy fashion magazine  Read More >>

Dressing for Austerity: Aspiration, Leisure and Fashion in Post-war Britain

Dressing for Austerity: Aspiration, Leisure and Fashion...

Author: Dr Geraldine Biddle-Perry (Central St Martins, London, UK)
ISBN: 9781780766287
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Fashioning a new Jerusalem in Austerity Britain  Read More >>

Boots & Shoes

Boots & Shoes

Author: C M Henderson
ISBN: 9781473338203
Format: Paperback
$25.85

A vintage catalogue published by boot and shoe manufacturing company C. M. Henderson & Co. It contains illustrations...  Read More >>

Handbook of Shoe Factory Engineering

Handbook of Shoe Factory Engineering

Author: United Shoe Machinery Co
ISBN: 9781473338210
Format: Paperback
$25.85

A detailed guide to designing and equipping factories that produce leather boots and shoes. It covers all aspects...  Read More >>

Shoe Factory Efficiency

Shoe Factory Efficiency

Author: J E Kirwin
ISBN: 9781473338241
Format: Paperback
$25.85

"First published in 1910, this is a vintage treatise on increasing and maintaining production efficiency in a shoe...  Read More >>

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