Fashion & society books

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The Language of Fashion

The Language of Fashion

Author: Andy Stafford ,  Roland Barthes
ISBN: 9781845203801
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Roland Barthes, regarded as one of the perceptive critics of the 20th Century, was particularly fascinated by fashion...  Read More >>

The Language of Fashion

The Language of Fashion

Author: Andy Stafford ,  Roland Barthes
ISBN: 9781845203795
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Roland Barthes, regarded as one of the perceptive critics of the 20th Century, was particularly fascinated by fashion...  Read More >>

Fashion and Fiction: Dress in Art and Literature in Stuart England

Fashion and Fiction: Dress in Art and Literature in...

Author: Aileen Ribeiro
ISBN: 9780300109993
Format: Hardback
$184.80

The Stuart period is particularly rich in the variety of dress among the wealtheir classes, ranging from the complex,...  Read More >>

Shoes and Pattens

Shoes and Pattens

Author: Francis Grew ,  Margrethe de Neergaard
ISBN: 9781843832386
Format: Paperback
$64.66

The best scholarship focused on shoes and everyday dress accessories from the Middle Ages. Indispensable. SPECULUM...  Read More >>

Patterns for Costume Accessories

Patterns for Costume Accessories

Author: Arnold S. Levine ,  Robin L. McGee
ISBN: 9780896762411
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Presents a collection of over 80 patterns for period and contemporary costume accessories. This volume also features...  Read More >>

Alaska Eskimo Footwear

Alaska Eskimo Footwear

Author: Jill Oakes ,  Rick Riewe
ISBN: 9781889963808
Format: Hardback
$145.07

Celebrates the beauty and spiritual significance of the shoes and boots worn by Alaska Native peoples. This volume...  Read More >>

The Kimono of the Geisha-diva Ichimaru

The Kimono of the Geisha-diva Ichimaru

Author: Barry Till ,  Michiko Warkentyne
ISBN: 9780764935138
Format: Hardback
$25.85

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Costumes and Textiles of Royal India

Costumes and Textiles of Royal India

Author: Ritu Kumar
ISBN: 9781851495092
Format: Hardback
$356.40

Features an in-depth study of the evolution of Indian royal costume, that spans centuries from first representations...  Read More >>

Visionaire #48: Magic Display

Visionaire #48: Magic Display

Author:
ISBN: 9781888645583
Format: Paperback
$1452.00

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Women's Costume of the Ancient World

Women's Costume of the Ancient World

Author: Paul Louis de Giafferri
ISBN: 9780486445274
Format: Paperback
$39.47

These colourful illustrations of what fashionable women were wearing more than two millennia ago offer authentic...  Read More >>

Dirt, Undress, and Difference: Critical Perspectives on the Body's Surface

Dirt, Undress, and Difference: Critical Perspectives...

Author: Adeline Masquelier
ISBN: 9780253346285
Format: Hardback
$171.60

A collection of essays which contribute insights into the topics of bodily treatments and transgressions. It explores...  Read More >>

Wearing Propaganda: Textiles on the Home Front in Japan, Britain, and the United States

Wearing Propaganda: Textiles on the Home Front in Japan,...

Author: Jacqueline Atkins
ISBN: 9780300109252
Format: Hardback
$171.60

An astonishing survey of the use of fashion and textiles as powerful propaganda tools in the Second World War era...  Read More >>

Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding

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

Author: Dorothy Ko
ISBN: 9780520218840
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Debunks myths and misconceptions about footbinding's origins, development, and eventual end, exploring in the process...  Read More >>

Earthly Scents – Heavenly Pleasures: A Cultural History of Scents

Earthly Scents – Heavenly Pleasures: A Cultural History...

Author: Günther Ohloff
ISBN: 9783906390345
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Scented materials are an essential part of human culture. In Assyrian Nineveh, frankincense would be sacrificed...  Read More >>

The Storyteller's Guide: Storyteller's Share Advice for the Classroom August House Publishers Incorporated, P.O.Box 3223 Little Rock, Ar 72203-3223, San: 223-7288, T: 501-372-5450 Us

The Storyteller's Guide: Storyteller's Share Advice...

Author: Bill Mooney
ISBN: 9780874834826
Format: Paperback
$63.23

Ask a storyteller a question and in response you get a story. The interviews in this handbook are packed with well-chosen...  Read More >>

Dressed In Fiction

Dressed In Fiction

Author: Professor Clair Hughes (Formerly of International Christian University, Japan)
ISBN: 9781845201722
Format: Paperback
$69.99

"Traces the deployment of dress in fictional texts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from ""Roxana"" to...  Read More >>

Masked Ritual and Performance in South India

Masked Ritual and Performance in South India

Author: David Dean Shulman ,  Deborah Thiagarajan
ISBN: 9780891480884
Format: Hardback
$184.80

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Dressed In Fiction

Dressed In Fiction

Author: Professor Clair Hughes (Formerly of International Christian University, Japan)
ISBN: 9781845201715
Format: Hardback
$260.00

"Traces the deployment of dress in fictional texts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from ""Roxana"" to...  Read More >>

The 18th Century Volume 5

The 18th Century Volume 5

Author: Alex Woolf
ISBN: 9780816059485
Format: Hardback
$92.40

A History of Fashion and Costume is an eight-volume set that examines the development of costume and fashion over...  Read More >>

Early America Volume 4

Early America Volume 4

Author: Paige Weber ,  Alex Woolf
ISBN: 9780816059478
Format: Hardback
$92.40

A History of Fashion and Costume is an eight-volume set that examines the development of costume and fashion over...  Read More >>

Delirious Denim

Delirious Denim

Author: Xu Guiying
ISBN: 9789812455499
Format: Paperback
$134.64

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World of Head Ornaments: Africa, Asia,Oceania,America

World of Head Ornaments: Africa, Asia,Oceania,America...

Author: Anne Van Cutsem ,  Mauro Magliani
ISBN: 9788876242816
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Featuring a variety of head adornment in 200 full-color plates, this sixth volume presents in photographs an array...  Read More >>

Worst Fashions: What We Shouldn't Have Worn - But Did

Worst Fashions: What We Shouldn't Have Worn - But Did...

Author: Catherine Horwood
ISBN: 9780750941594
Format: Hardback
$26.99

Have you ever glanced at an old photograph and wondered just why you chose to look like that? Or wondered just what...  Read More >>

Hip Knit Hats: Forty Fabulous Designs

Hip Knit Hats: Forty Fabulous Designs

Author: Cathy Carron
ISBN: 9781579906443
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Every knitter will adore these timeless, fashionable, and extremely wearable hats, all photographed on models in...  Read More >>

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