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Chinese Dress: From the Qing Dynasty to the Present

Chinese Dress: From the Qing Dynasty to the Present...

Author: Valery Garrett
ISBN: 9780804836630
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Examines Chinese dress: from court and formal costumes through to the working attire of the lower classes and the...  Read More >>

Fashion Babylon

Fashion Babylon

Author: Imogen Edwards-Jones ,  Anonymous
ISBN: 9781416543190
Format: Paperback
$36.96

What is fashion? What is fashionable? This work takes you through six months in a designer's life. Starting at the...  Read More >>

Style Deficit Disorder: Harajuku Street Fashion, Tokyo

Style Deficit Disorder: Harajuku Street Fashion, Tokyo...

Author: Tiffany Godoy
ISBN: 9780811857963
Format: Hardback
$79.07

The Harajuku neighborhood of Tokyo has become an international style mecca, a street-level fashion scene prowled...  Read More >>

Pictorial Encyclopedia of Historic Costume: 1, 200 Full-Color Figures

Pictorial Encyclopedia of Historic Costume: 1, 200 Full-Color...

Author: Albert Kretschmer ,  Karl Rohrbach
ISBN: 9780486461427
Format: Paperback
$49.99

From ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome to 19th-century France, England, and Germany, this treasury chronicles the...  Read More >>

Fashion for Men: An Illustrated History

Fashion for Men: An Illustrated History

Author: Diana De Marly
ISBN: 9780841912403
Format: Paperback
$38.81

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Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding

Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding...

Author: Dorothy Ko
ISBN: 9780520253902
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Footbinding originated in the dance culture of China's medieval court and spread to gentry families, brothels, maid's...  Read More >>

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture

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

Author: Valerie Steele
ISBN: 9781845206062
Format: Paperback
$86.99

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

It's a Matter of Illustration: Amatterofdesign

It's a Matter of Illustration: Amatterofdesign

Author: Viction Workshop
ISBN: 9789889822927
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas

Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas

Author: Mina Roces ,  Louise Edwards
ISBN: 9781845191634
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Explores the ways in which dress has been influential in the political agendas and self-representations of politicians...  Read More >>

Kimonos

Kimonos

Author: Sophie Milenovich
ISBN: 9780810994508
Format: Hardback
$45.00

The kimono, one of the most emblematic symbols of Japan, it is more than a garment - governed by a wealth of codes...  Read More >>

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing through World History [3 volumes]

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing through World...

Author: Jill Condra
ISBN: 9780313336621
Format: Hardback
$322.95

How people dressed throughout history often reflects how they lived at the time, and Clothing in World History gives...  Read More >>

Modernizing Joan of Arc: Conceptions, Costumes, and Canonization

Modernizing Joan of Arc: Conceptions, Costumes, and...

Author: Ellen Ecker Dolgin
ISBN: 9780786431205
Format: Paperback
$43.95

Historical opinions regarding Joan of Arc are fraught with contradiction. This work explores the attitudes that...  Read More >>

Bvlgari

Bvlgari

Author: Amanda Triossi ,  Daniela Mascetti
ISBN: 9780789209450
Format: Hardback
$198.00

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Valentino

Valentino

Author: Matt Tyrnauer ,  Suzy Menkes
ISBN: 9783836501606
Format: Hardback
$15840.00

Valentino has always designed clothes for glamorous and sophisticated women. This publication covers Valentino's...  Read More >>

The Worldwide History of Dress

The Worldwide History of Dress

Author: Patricia Rieff Anawalt
ISBN: 9780500513637
Format: Hardback
$264.00

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Dress Like A Star

Dress Like A Star

Author: Annebe Tongeren
ISBN: 9781741666045
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Nothing makes a woman feel as glamorous and serene as knowing she is well dressed. The day is always brighter when...  Read More >>

Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture

Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture

Author: Doran Ross ,  Catherine Harper
ISBN: 9781845206192
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Brings together research in textiles in an academic forum. Representing a set of critical practices, this book provides...  Read More >>

Why Women Wear What They Wear

Why Women Wear What They Wear

Author: Sophie Woodward
ISBN: 9781845206994
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Presents an intimate ethnography of clothing choice. This book uses real women's lives and clothing decisions-observed...  Read More >>

Comb: its History and Development

Comb: its History and Development

Author: Jen Cruse
ISBN: 9780709081371
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Describes the principal materials together with the combmaker's craft, up to and including the important plastics...  Read More >>

Why Women Wear What They Wear

Why Women Wear What They Wear

Author: Sophie Woodward
ISBN: 9781845206987
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Presents an intimate ethnography of clothing choice. This book uses real women's lives and clothing decisions-observed...  Read More >>

Dress Sense: Emotional and Sensory Experiences of the Body and Clothes

Dress Sense: Emotional and Sensory Experiences of the...

Author: Donald Clay Johnson ,  Helen Bradley Foster
ISBN: 9781845206925
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Explores the importance of the senses and emotions in the way people dress, and how they attach value and significance...  Read More >>

High Fashion Handbags: Classic Vintage Designs

High Fashion Handbags: Classic Vintage Designs

Author: Adrienne Astrologo ,  Nancy N. Schiffer
ISBN: 9780764325083
Format: Hardback
$85.00

"An essential part of the well dressed woman is her handbag. Here over 300 exquisite color photographs of handbags...  Read More >>

Style First

Style First

Author: Mieke Gerritzen
ISBN: 9783764384388
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Mieke Gerritzen developed a strong visual style which slowly became a vision a clear vision about the state of the...  Read More >>

Details: Men's Style Manual: The Ultimate Guide for Making Your Clothes Work for You

Details: Men's Style Manual: The Ultimate Guide for...

Author: Daniel Peres ,  Editors of Details Magazine
ISBN: 9781592403288
Format: Paperback
$65.00

A man's wardrobe is one of his most valuable assets: the editors of Details magazines are experts on this subject,...  Read More >>

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