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One Hour Dress-17 Easy-to-Sew Vintage Dress Designs From 1924 (Book 1)

One Hour Dress-17 Easy-to-Sew Vintage Dress Designs...

Author: Mary Brooks Picken
ISBN: 9781635610291
Format: Paperback
$23.16

In 1924, author Mary Brooks Picken perfected her method of creating sixteen different dress styles while serving...  Read More >>

One Hour Dress-17 Easy-to-Sew Vintage Dress Designs From 1924 (Book 1)

One Hour Dress-17 Easy-to-Sew Vintage Dress Designs...

Author: Mary Brooks Picken
ISBN: 9781635610284
Format: Hardback
$38.68

In 1924, author Mary Brooks Picken perfected her method of creating sixteen different dress styles while serving...  Read More >>

Dress [with] Sense: The Practical Guide to a Conscious Closet

Dress [with] Sense: The Practical Guide to a Conscious...

Author: Christina Dean ,  Hannah Lane
ISBN: 9780500292778
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A stylish guide to environment-friendly ways of buying, wearing, caring for and decluttering your wardrobe.  Read More >>

Avedon's France: Old World, New Look

Avedon's France: Old World, New Look

Author: Robert Rubin ,  Marianne Le Galliard
ISBN: 9781419726002
Format: Hardback
$55.00

An intimate portrait of Avedon's lifelong engagement with the culture, art, literature, cinema, and fashion of France...  Read More >>

Afropolitanism and the Black Blogosphere

Afropolitanism and the Black Blogosphere

Author: Christelle Kedi
ISBN: 9780993503610
Format: Paperback
$38.79

An up-to-date look at Black beauty and fashion blogs and what it is to be an Afropolitan. Includes case studies...  Read More >>

Australian Style: The Who's Who of Fashion

Australian Style: The Who's Who of Fashion

Author: Lisa Teh ,  Thom Whilton
ISBN: 9780500500989
Format: Paperback
$34.99

From models and designers to magazine editors and social media starlets, Australian Style offers insight into the...  Read More >>

Edwardian Ladies' Hat Fashions: Where Did You Get that Hat?

Edwardian Ladies' Hat Fashions: Where Did You Get that...

Author: Peter Kimpton
ISBN: 9781473881297
Format: Hardback
$65.00

An insight into social history during the reign of Edward VII and the fabulous hat fashions which emerged during...  Read More >>

Fashion and Everyday Life: London and New York

Fashion and Everyday Life: London and New York

Author: Cheryl Buckley (University of Brighton, UK) ,  Dr Hazel Clark (Parsons School of Design, USA)
ISBN: 9781847888266
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Taking cultural theorist Michel de Certeau’s notion of ‘the everyday’ as a critical starting point, this book considers...  Read More >>

Fashioning Identity: Status Ambivalence in Contemporary Fashion

Fashioning Identity: Status Ambivalence in Contemporary...

Author: Professor Maria Mackinney-Valentin (Associate Professor, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design, Denmark) ,  Regents' Professor Emerita Joanne B Eicher (University of Minnesota)
ISBN: 9781474249102
Format: Hardback
$260.00

We dress to communicate who we are, or who we would like others to think we are, telling seductive fashion narratives...  Read More >>

Fashion and Everyday Life: London and New York

Fashion and Everyday Life: London and New York

Author: Cheryl Buckley (University of Brighton, UK) ,  Dr Hazel Clark (Parsons School of Design, USA)
ISBN: 9781847888273
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Taking cultural theorist Michel de Certeau’s notion of ‘the everyday’ as a critical starting point, this book considers...  Read More >>

Dress and Society: Contributions from Archaeology

Dress and Society: Contributions from Archaeology

Author: T. F. Martin ,  R. Weetch
ISBN: 9781785703157
Format: Paperback
$93.15

Presents a refreshingly new, theoretically informed and integrated approach to dress as a specific category of archaeological...  Read More >>

From Goodwill to Grunge: A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies

From Goodwill to Grunge: A History of Secondhand Styles...

Author: Jennifer Le Zotte
ISBN: 9781469631899
Format: Hardback
$261.36

In this surprising new look at how clothing, style, and commerce came together to change American culture, Jennifer...  Read More >>

Unwrapping Tongan Barkcloth: Encounters, Creativity and Female Agency

Unwrapping Tongan Barkcloth: Encounters, Creativity...

Author: Fanny Wonu Veys (National Museum of World Cultures, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781474283328
Format: Hardback
$260.00

An historical account of the cultural biography of barkcloth in Tonga, exploring its significance for female agency...  Read More >>

50 Cents a Pattern: Knitted Baby Booties: 20 On the Go projects

50 Cents a Pattern: Knitted Baby Booties: 20 On the...

Author: Val Pierce
ISBN: 9781782215028
Format: Paperback
$26.27

No-one can resist knitting a pretty pair of baby booties for a new babyso here are twenty of them, all unique but...  Read More >>

Fashioning Memory: Vintage Style and Youth Culture

Fashioning Memory: Vintage Style and Youth Culture

Author: Heike Jenss (Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA)
ISBN: 9781350024366
Format: Paperback
$52.99

"The valuing of old clothes as ""vintage"" and the recollection of the sartorial past, whether through second-hand...  Read More >>

Venice Incognito: Masks in the Serene Republic

Venice Incognito: Masks in the Serene Republic

Author: James H. Johnson
ISBN: 9780520294653
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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The American Issue

The American Issue

Author: Robert Kulisek ,  David Lieske
ISBN: 9783960980681
Format: Paperback
$92.40

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Lady Gaga and Popular Music: Performing Gender, Fashion, and Culture

Lady Gaga and Popular Music: Performing Gender, Fashion,...

Author: Martin Iddon ,  Melanie Marshall
ISBN: 9781138630482
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This book is a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary examination of the music and figure of Lady Gaga, combining approaches...  Read More >>

The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness

The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness

Author: Joshua Paul Dale (Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan) ,  Joyce Goggin (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781138998766
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Cuteness is one of the most culturally pervasive aesthetics of the new millennium and its rapid social proliferation...  Read More >>

Tweed

Tweed

Author: Fiona Anderson (Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, UK)
ISBN: 9781845206970
Format: Paperback
$52.99

The story of tweed is tied to a series of social, economic and cultural shifts that have molded its development....  Read More >>

Flats: Technical Drawing for Fashion, Second Edition: A Complete Guide

Flats: Technical Drawing for Fashion, Second Edition:...

Author: Basia Szkutnicka
ISBN: 9781780678375
Format: Paperback
$132.00

"""A step-by-step Illustrator tutorial is available to view on the Laurence King website, together with downloadable...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion

A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion

Author: Susan J. Vincent (Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York, UK) ,  Susan J. Vincent (Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York, UK)
ISBN: 9781472557490
Format: Mixed media product
$885.00

This ground-breaking, six-volume work is the first comprehensive survey of the history of dress and fashion. Written...  Read More >>

Street Fashion Moscow

Street Fashion Moscow

Author: Elena Siemens ,  Eliot Borenstein
ISBN: 9781783206131
Format: Hardback
$142.95

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The Fire of a Restless Mind

The Fire of a Restless Mind

Author: Ritu Beri
ISBN: 9789332703292
Format: Hardback
$90.43

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