Fashion & society books

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Fashioning London: Clothing and the Modern Metropolis

Fashioning London: Clothing and the Modern Metropolis...

Author: Christopher Breward
ISBN: 9781859737873
Format: Hardback
$240.00

"Over the past three centuries, London has established itself as one of the world's most inventive fashion capitals....  Read More >>

Russian Folk Tales

Russian Folk Tales

Author: W.R.S. Ralston
ISBN: 9780766189577
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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Clan Traditions and Popular Tales of the Western Highlands and Islands

Clan Traditions and Popular Tales of the Western Highlands...

Author: John Gregorson Campbell ,  Alfred Nutt
ISBN: 9780766188310
Format: Paperback
$60.59

1895. Clan traditions and popular tales of the western Highlands and islands. Collected from oral sources and selected...  Read More >>

Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed

Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed

Author: Harold Koda
ISBN: 9780300103120
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Over time and across cultures extraordinary manipulations of the body have occurred. This volume features photographs,...  Read More >>

The Book of Scottish Anecdote: Humorous, Social, Legendary and Historical

The Book of Scottish Anecdote: Humorous, Social, Legendary...

Author: A. Hislop
ISBN: 9780766185968
Format: Paperback
$139.79

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Establishing Dress History

Establishing Dress History

Author: Lou Taylor (Professor of Dress and Textile History, University of Brighton)
ISBN: 9780719066399
Format: Paperback
$92.40

'Establishing Dress History' will appeal not only to students and academics bt all those those with an interest...  Read More >>

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture

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

Author: Valerie Steele
ISBN: 9781859738856
Format: Paperback
$81.71

Provides a definition of 'fashion' as the cultural construction of the embodied identity. This work provides an...  Read More >>

Medieval Costume and How to Recreate it

Medieval Costume and How to Recreate it

Author: Dorothy Hartley
ISBN: 9780486429854
Format: Paperback
$34.99

An unabridged republication of the 1931 original, Dorothy Hartley's illustrated guide depicts medieval clothes and...  Read More >>

Fashion under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt

Fashion under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt

Author: Professor Eugenia Paulicelli
ISBN: 9781859737781
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Prada, Gucci, Max Mara: 'alta moda' is synonymous with luxury, glamour and pleasure. Yet Italian fashion also has...  Read More >>

Auguste Racinet: Costume History

Auguste Racinet: Costume History

Author: Francoise Tetart-Vittu
ISBN: 9783822821930
Format: Hardback
$528.00

Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Racient's Le Costume Historique was the most wide-ranging...  Read More >>

Etruscan Dress

Etruscan Dress

Author: Larissa Bonfante
ISBN: 9780801874130
Format: Paperback
$67.99

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Secrets of Success: Key Insights for Life's Journey from the Great Western Myths

Secrets of Success: Key Insights for Life's Journey...

Author: Gerald W. Morton
ISBN: 9781892538208
Format: Hardback
$34.19

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Cowboy Hat Book

Cowboy Hat Book

Author: Ritch Rand ,  Ritch Rand
ISBN: 9781586852580
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Revised to include presidential hats, new celebrity hats, and a fully updated resource listing of custom hatters....  Read More >>

Riding Costume in Egypt: Origin and Appearance

Riding Costume in Egypt: Origin and Appearance

Author: Cacilia Fluck ,  Vogelsang-Eastwood
ISBN: 9789004131637
Format: Hardback
$388.08

An extremely rare and conspicuous find of oriental riding costumes in the late antique necropolis of Antinoopolis...  Read More >>

Her Style: Hair by Odile Gilbert

Her Style: Hair by Odile Gilbert

Author: Odile Gilbert ,  Peter Lindbergh
ISBN: 9783882439250
Format: Hardback
$232.32

As one of the most accomplished and in-demand in her profession, the author approaches her work as a sculptor would,...  Read More >>

Through the Wardrobe: Women's Relationships with Their Clothes

Through the Wardrobe: Women's Relationships with Their...

Author: Maura Banim ,  Eileen Green
ISBN: 9781859733882
Format: Paperback
$69.99

This book fills a gap in the existing literature on the ambivalence of fashion and dress by drawing on a range of...  Read More >>

Dressing the Elite: Clothes in Early Modern England

Dressing the Elite: Clothes in Early Modern England...

Author: Susan J. Vincent (Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York, UK)
ISBN: 9781859737460
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Clothing occupies a complex and important position in relation to human experience. It gives form to society's ideas...  Read More >>

Fashionable Clothing from the Sears Catalogs Late 1940s

Fashionable Clothing from the Sears Catalogs Late 1940s...

Author: Tina Skinner
ISBN: 9780764319556
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Here is an exciting new installment in a series from Schiffer Publishing illustrating fashion trends in America....  Read More >>

Chinese Fables and Folk Stories

Chinese Fables and Folk Stories

Author: Mary Hayes Davis ,  Chow-Leung
ISBN: 9781410208767
Format: Paperback
$64.68

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The Fairy Tales of Madame D'Aulnoy

The Fairy Tales of Madame D'Aulnoy

Author: Countess of d'Aulnoy ,  Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ISBN: 9781410208316
Format: Paperback
$91.08

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S/He: Changing Sex and Changing Clothes

S/He: Changing Sex and Changing Clothes

Author: Claudine Griggs
ISBN: 9781859739167
Format: Paperback
$87.95

While highlighting how the gender identity of transsexuals relates to hormonal and surgical changes in the body...  Read More >>

Dress and Morality

Dress and Morality

Author: Aileen Ribeiro (The Courtauld Institute of Art and The University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781859737828
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Moralists have raged through history against fashions which are too short, too long, too tight, too loose or too...  Read More >>

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture

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

Author: Valerie Steele ,  Nirmal Puwar
ISBN: 9781859737316
Format: Paperback
$97.55

"Discusses fashion and orientalism. This issue includes topics such as: 'Exhibiting Spectacle and Memory', 'Skin...  Read More >>

Bound to Please: A History of the Victorian Corset

Bound to Please: A History of the Victorian Corset

Author: Leigh Summers
ISBN: 9781859735107
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Corsets, and the corseted body, have been fetishized, mythologized, romanticized. This Victorian icon has inspired...  Read More >>

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