Fashion & society books

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How To Have Style

How To Have Style

Author: Isaac Mizrahi
ISBN: 9781592403929
Format: Paperback
$79.20

The king of real-world chic shares his tips and award-winning flair in a colorful guidebook designed to unleash...  Read More >>

The Necklace: A True Story of 13 Women, 1 Diamond Necklace and a Fabulous Idea

The Necklace: A True Story of 13 Women, 1 Diamond Necklace...

Author: Cheryl Jarvis
ISBN: 9780007268856
Format: Paperback
$23.26

One day a woman of average means waltzes by a jewellery shop window and spots a £20,000 diamond necklace. She can't...  Read More >>

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture...

Author: Valerie Steele
ISBN: 9781847884251
Format: Paperback
$92.27

This journal takes as its starting point a definition of 'fashion' as the cultural construction of the embodied...  Read More >>

Charity Shopping: The Thrift Lifestyle

Charity Shopping: The Thrift Lifestyle

Author: Lettice Wilkinson
ISBN: 9780714531496
Format: Paperback
$32.99

An examination of thrift shopping internationally that also looks at the politics behind new retail formats.  Read More >>

Designing Clothes: Culture and Organization of the Fashion Industry

Designing Clothes: Culture and Organization of the Fashion...

Author: Veronica Manlow
ISBN: 9781412810555
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Fashion is all around us: we see it, we buy it, we read about it, but most people know little about fashion as a...  Read More >>

Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Texts, Images

Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Texts,...

Author: D. Koslin ,  Kenneth A. Loparo
ISBN: 9780230602359
Format: Paperback
$258.72

In this wide-ranging study of costume history contributors explore fashion, textiles, and the representation of...  Read More >>

Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa

Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa

Author: Hans Silvester
ISBN: 9780500288054
Format: Paperback
$55.00

In the Omo Valley the local Surma and Mursi tribes decorate the territory of their naked bodies with whatever nature...  Read More >>

Style Clinic: How to Look Fabulous All the Time, at Any Age, for Any Occasion

Style Clinic: How to Look Fabulous All the Time, at...

Author: Paula Reed
ISBN: 9780060793548
Format: Hardback
$35.00

Why is it that simply getting dressed in the morning can be a bewildering experience? This book offers practical...  Read More >>

The Mode in Hats and Headdress: A Historical Survey with 190 Plates

The Mode in Hats and Headdress: A Historical Survey...

Author: R.Turner Wilcox
ISBN: 9780486467627
Format: Paperback
$44.99

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The Mode in Costume: A Historical Survey with 202 Plates

The Mode in Costume: A Historical Survey with 202 Plates...

Author: R.Turner Wilcox
ISBN: 9780486468204
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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Scent and Scent-sibilities: Smell and Everyday Life Experiences

Scent and Scent-sibilities: Smell and Everyday Life...

Author: Kelvin E. Y. Low
ISBN: 9781443802154
Format: Hardback
$103.47

Smells are distinct and ubiquitous. They envelope us, enter our bodies, and emanate from us. Yet, they remain relegated...  Read More >>

World Dress Fashion in Detail

World Dress Fashion in Detail

Author: Rosemary Crill ,  Jennifer Wearden
ISBN: 9781851775682
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Highlights the V&A's renowned world dress collection. This book explores cut work and silk embroidery from Indonesia,...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail

Nineteenth-Century Fashion in Detail

Author: Lucy Johnston
ISBN: 9781851775729
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Showcases the opulence and variety of 19th-century fashion through colour photography and line drawings of the garments....  Read More >>

Dress and Society

Dress and Society

Author: Jane E. Workman ,  Beth W. Freeburg
ISBN: 9781563676260
Format: Paperback
$46.99

Presents sociological research on the way people dress and helps students develop an appreciation for the value...  Read More >>

The Men's Fashion Reader

The Men's Fashion Reader

Author: Peter McNeil (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) ,  Vicki Karaminas (Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9781845207878
Format: Paperback
$118.67

Presents key writings in the history, culture and identity of men's fashion. This book contains thematic sections...  Read More >>

The Men's Fashion Reader

The Men's Fashion Reader

Author: Peter McNeil (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) ,  Vicki Karaminas (Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9781845207861
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Presents key writings in the history, culture and identity of men's fashion. This book contains thematic sections...  Read More >>

Baldness: A Social History

Baldness: A Social History

Author: Kerry Segrave
ISBN: 9780786440795
Format: Paperback
$43.95

From the first torturous attempts at hair implants early in the 21st century to the faddish, well-hyped drug treatments,...  Read More >>

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture...

Author: Regina A. Root
ISBN: 9781847882011
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Intends to bring together fresh perspectives for the field of fashion studies, asking a set of research questions...  Read More >>

Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion

Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion

Author: Dr Geraldine Biddle-Perry (Central St Martins, London, UK) ,  Sarah Cheang (Royal College of Art, UK)
ISBN: 9781845207922
Format: Paperback
$76.99

Explores the social importance of hair, wherever it grows, explaining the cultural significance of hair and hairiness,...  Read More >>

Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion

Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion

Author: Dr Geraldine Biddle-Perry (Central St Martins, London, UK) ,  Sarah Cheang (Royal College of Art, UK)
ISBN: 9781845207915
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Explores the social importance of hair, wherever it grows, explaining the cultural significance of hair and hairiness,...  Read More >>

Daily Dress at Deir el-Medina, Words for Clothing

Daily Dress at Deir el-Medina, Words for Clothing

Author: Jac. J. Janssen
ISBN: 9781906137052
Format: Paperback
$38.81

Using evidence from the papyri and ostraca from New Kingdom Deir el-Medina, as well as the meagre evidence of archaeology...  Read More >>

Style File: The World's Most Elegantly Dressed

Style File: The World's Most Elegantly Dressed

Author: Ike Ude
ISBN: 9780061464201
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Celebrates the stylish as opposed to the stylized. This book is suitable for those with an interest in fashion,...  Read More >>

Magnificence of the Tsars: Ceremonial Men's Dress of the Russian Imperial Court ,1721-1917

Magnificence of the Tsars: Ceremonial Men's Dress of...

Author: Svetlana A. Amelekhina ,  Alexey K. Levykin
ISBN: 9781851775507
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Captures the grandeur of Imperial Russia featuring the dress and uniforms of Emperors and officials of the Russian...  Read More >>

Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture

Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture

Author: Catherine Harper ,  Doran Ross
ISBN: 9781847882448
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Brings together research in textiles in an academic forum. This work provides a platform for points of departure...  Read More >>

Gothic: Dark Glamour

Gothic: Dark Glamour

Author: Valerie Steele ,  Jennifer Park
ISBN: 9780300136944
Format: Hardback
$118.80

From its origins in the eighteenth-century literature of terror to its contemporary manifestations in vampire fiction,...  Read More >>

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