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Exchanging Clothes: Habits of Being II

Exchanging Clothes: Habits of Being II

Author: Cristina Giorcelli ,  Paula Rabinowitz
ISBN: 9780816678075
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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Consumer Culture and the Media: Magazines in the Public Eye

Consumer Culture and the Media: Magazines in the Public...

Author: M. Iqani
ISBN: 9780230303683
Format: Hardback
$145.17

How did consumer culture become synonymous with westernised societies? Iqani argues that it is the way it is promoted...  Read More >>

Exchanging Clothes: Habits of Being II

Exchanging Clothes: Habits of Being II

Author: Cristina Giorcelli ,  Paula Rabinowitz
ISBN: 9780816678068
Format: Hardback
$89.99

How garments-signaling and altering identity-circulate through culture and the economy  Read More >>

How to Look Expensive: A Beauty Editor's Secrets to Getting Gorgeous without Breaking the Bank

How to Look Expensive: A Beauty Editor's Secrets to...

Author: Andrea Pomerantz Lustig
ISBN: 9781592407231
Format: Hardback
$45.00

""Glamour""'s Beauty Sleuth reveals tricks of the trade to help readers look fabulously high-end--in any economy....  Read More >>

Indigo: In Search of the Colour that Seduced the World

Indigo: In Search of the Colour that Seduced the World...

Author: Catherine E. McKinley
ISBN: 9781408822364
Format: Paperback
$19.99

A richly-told, personal quest across the ancient trade routes of West Africa, and the unforgettable story of a rare,...  Read More >>

The Medieval Tailor's Assistant: Making Common Garments 1200-1500

The Medieval Tailor's Assistant: Making Common Garments...

Author: Sarah Thursfield ,  Ruth Bean
ISBN: 9780903585323
Format: Paperback
$90.00

For making period clothes for re-enactment, display and theatre. The reader is shown how to make braies, shirts...  Read More >>

Clothes and the Child: A Handbook of Children's Dress in England 1500-1900

Clothes and the Child: A Handbook of Children's Dress...

Author: Anne Buck, OBE
ISBN: 9780903585293
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Children's clothes reflect the concerns of parents and shifts in fashions. The needs of the child, social attitudes...  Read More >>

Visionaire No. 62 Rio, Beatriz Millhazes Case

Visionaire No. 62 Rio, Beatriz Millhazes Case

Author: Beatriz Milhazes
ISBN: 9781888645958
Format: Hardback
$990.00

Some years ago, an antique stereoscope was presented at one of Visionaire's weekly brainstorm sessions, inspiring...  Read More >>

Marketing Fashion: A Global Perspective

Marketing Fashion: A Global Perspective

Author: Penny Gill ,  Richard Petrizzi
ISBN: 9781609010782
Format: Paperback
$220.00

The first text to engagingly present marketing theories and practices as they specifically relate to apparel, home...  Read More >>

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 8

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 8

Author: Robin Netherton (Author) ,  Professor Gale R. Owen-Crocker
ISBN: 9781843837367
Format: Hardback
$168.19

Pan-European research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines.  Read More >>

Fashioning Japanese Subcultures

Fashioning Japanese Subcultures

Author: Yuniya Kawamura (Fashion Institute of Technology, USA)
ISBN: 9781847889478
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Based on insightful ethnographic fieldwork in Tokyo, is the first theoretical and analytical study on Japan's contemporary...  Read More >>

Victorian Costume for Ladies 1860-1900

Victorian Costume for Ladies 1860-1900

Author: Linda Setnik
ISBN: 9780764339721
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Updated with nearly 30 high-quality vintage images, the second edition of this lavishly illustrated book provides...  Read More >>

Bill Cunningham New York: A Film by Richard Press

Bill Cunningham New York: A Film by Richard Press

Author: Bill Cunningham
ISBN: 9781935202400
Format: DVD
$79.17

"""We all get dressed for Bill,"" says Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. The Bill in question is New York Times...  Read More >>

Fashion

Fashion

Author: A Ammonite
ISBN: 9781907708329
Format: Paperback
$20.67

A visual record of the British people's habits of dress from the Victorians to Britpop. It takes us on a journey...  Read More >>

Silk Splendour: Textiles of Late Imperial China 1644-1911

Silk Splendour: Textiles of Late Imperial China 1644-1911...

Author: Barry Till
ISBN: 9780888853684
Format: Paperback
$161.25

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Body Style

Body Style

Author: Therèsa M. Winge
ISBN: 9781847880239
Format: Paperback
$66.99

Reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding identity, resistance, agency and fashion. The result of...  Read More >>

Queens of Academe: Beauty Pageants and Campus Life

Queens of Academe: Beauty Pageants and Campus Life

Author: Karen W. Tice (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Gender & Women's Studies and Educational Policy Studies, University of Kentucky)
ISBN: 9780199842803
Format: Paperback
$66.95

Higher education is an unlikely venue for showcasing ideals of femininity, yet campus beauty pageants have increased...  Read More >>

Body Style

Body Style

Author: Therèsa M. Winge
ISBN: 9781847880017
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding identity, resistance, agency and fashion. The result of...  Read More >>

The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris

The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious...

Author: Alicia Drake ,  Bernadette Dunne
ISBN: 9781455157327
Format: Audio
$79.07

In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded and the city became a hothouse of revelry, intrigue, and ambition. At the center...  Read More >>

The Beautiful Fall Lib/E: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris

The Beautiful Fall Lib/E: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent,...

Author: Alicia Drake ,  Bernadette Dunne
ISBN: 9781455157303
Format: Audio
$287.76

In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded and the city became a hothouse of revelry, intrigue, and ambition. At the center...  Read More >>

The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris

The Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious...

Author: Alicia Drake ,  Bernadette Dunne
ISBN: 9781455157310
Format: Audio
$86.99

In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded like a champagne bottle left out in the sun. Amid sequins and longing, celebrities...  Read More >>

Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World

Indigo: In Search of the Color That Seduced the World...

Author: Catherine E McKinley ,  McKinley
ISBN: 9781608195886
Format: Paperback
$50.13

For almost five millennia, in every culture and in every major religion, indigo--a blue pigment obtained from the...  Read More >>

The Printed Square: Vintage Handkerchief Patterns for Fashion and Design

The Printed Square: Vintage Handkerchief Patterns for...

Author: Nicky Albrechtsen
ISBN: 9780062123381
Format: Hardback
$65.97

Originally published: London: Thames & Hudson, 2012.  Read More >>

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