Fashion & society books

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Body Dressing

Body Dressing

Author: Dr Joanne Entwistle ,  Elizabeth Wilson (Independent Scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781859734391
Format: Hardback
$240.00

From dressing up to dressing down, this book exposes the complex ways that fashions and costumes render the body...  Read More >>

Your Vintage Keepsake: A CSA Guide to Costume Storage and Display

Your Vintage Keepsake: A CSA Guide to Costume Storage...

Author: Margaret T. Ordonez
ISBN: 9780967644509
Format: Paperback
$30.92

From family heirlooms to vintage purchases, almost everyone has some item of beautiful clothing or some treasured...  Read More >>

Carryin' On: and Other Strange Things Southerners Do

Carryin' On: and Other Strange Things Southerners Do...

Author: R. Scott Brunner
ISBN: 9780812992533
Format: Paperback
$39.60

"Pat Conroy said that R. Scott Brunner's Due South ""delivers the goods and delivers them Southern fried""; Rick...  Read More >>

Head Dress of Imperial Germany: 1880-1916

Head Dress of Imperial Germany: 1880-1916

Author: Paul Sanders
ISBN: 9780764313875
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This book is a compilation of helmets collected over the past thirty years, and is intended as an illustrated reference...  Read More >>

Vampires and Vampirism: Legends from Around the World

Vampires and Vampirism: Legends from Around the World...

Author: Dudley Wright
ISBN: 9781590210024
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Vampires and Vampirism is part of the canon of works on the folklore of vampires. Inside these pages are many accounts...  Read More >>

Out of Line: Australian Women and Style

Out of Line: Australian Women and Style

Author: Margaret Maynard
ISBN: 9780868405155
Format: Paperback
$94.91

Australian fashion is often accused of being derivative. This work argues that Australian women's fashions may be...  Read More >>

California Casual: Fashions, 1930s-1970s

California Casual: Fashions, 1930s-1970s

Author: Maureen Reilly
ISBN: 9780764312465
Format: Hardback
$72.99

Casual clothing, swimwear in particular, is strongly associated with the California lifestyle, and the design and...  Read More >>

Pantaloons and Power: A Nineteenth-century Dress Reform in the United States

Pantaloons and Power: A Nineteenth-century Dress Reform...

Author: Gaylo V. Fischer
ISBN: 9780873386821
Format: Paperback
$63.36

By the early 19th-century, clear definitions stated how American's were supposed to dress and behave. Whilst men's...  Read More >>

Old-time Men and Women Vignettes in Full Colour

Old-time Men and Women Vignettes in Full Colour

Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
ISBN: 9780486412269
Format: Paperback
$26.27

More than 300 dazzling, royalty-free illustrations of dowagers, debutantes, soldiers, sailors, and men of every...  Read More >>

Dressed to Impress: Looking the Part

Dressed to Impress: Looking the Part

Author: William J. F. Keenan
ISBN: 9781859734605
Format: Paperback
$69.99

"Our dress is our identity. In dress, we live, move and have our social being. This book shows how the dressed body...  Read More >>

Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture

Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture

Author: Susan Fillin-Yeh
ISBN: 9780814726969
Format: Paperback
$64.99

This work considers the visual languages, politics and poetics of personal appearance. ""Dandyism"" has been most...  Read More >>

Dressed to Impress: Looking the Part

Dressed to Impress: Looking the Part

Author: William J. F. Keenan
ISBN: 9781859734551
Format: Hardback
$240.00

"Our dress is our identity. In dress, we live, move and have our social being. This book shows how the dressed body...  Read More >>

Footnotes: On Shoes

Footnotes: On Shoes

Author: Shari Benstock ,  Suzanne Ferriss
ISBN: 9780813528717
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This collection of essays explore the many paradoxes inherent in shoes: in collecting, consuming, fashioning, representing,...  Read More >>

Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture

Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture

Author: Susan Fillin-Yeh
ISBN: 9780814726952
Format: Hardback
$184.00

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Fashions in Hair: The First Five Thousand Years

Fashions in Hair: The First Five Thousand Years

Author: Richard Corson
ISBN: 9780720610932
Format: Hardback
$181.10

A comprehensive historical survey of the enormous diversity of men's and women's hair styles through the ages. Profusely...  Read More >>

The Complete History of Costume and Fashion: From Ancient Egypt to the Present Day

The Complete History of Costume and Fashion: From Ancient...

Author: Bronwyn Cosgrave
ISBN: 9780816045747
Format: Hardback
$100.19

From the first fashion style of the Egyptians to the emergence of haute couture in the 20th century, fashion has...  Read More >>

Footnotes: On Shoes

Footnotes: On Shoes

Author: Shari Benstock ,  Suzanne Ferriss
ISBN: 9780813528700
Format: Hardback
$158.40

This collection of essays explore the many paradoxes inherent in shoes: in collecting, consuming, fashioning, representing,...  Read More >>

Desert Flower

Desert Flower

Author: Waris Dirie
ISBN: 9781860497582
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Waris, one of 12 children, was born into a traditional family of desert nomads in East Africa. After an extraordinary...  Read More >>

Popular Purses: It's in the Bag!

Popular Purses: It's in the Bag!

Author: Leslie Piña
ISBN: 9780764312939
Format: Hardback
$85.00

"""A Schiffer book for designers and collectors with price guide""--Cover."  Read More >>

The Fan Museum

The Fan Museum

Author: Helene Alexander
ISBN: 9780954031916
Format: Paperback
$33.00

A completely new survey of some of the most prestigious fans currently to be seen in any collection, including examples...  Read More >>

Kimono

Kimono

Author: Paul Van Riel ,  Liza Crihfield Dalby
ISBN: 9789074822411
Format: Hardback
$102.96

This work contains a selection of the numerous encounters Paul van Riel had with people wearing kimono all over...  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: 9781859733837
Format: Hardback
$260.00

This text sets out to fill a gap in the existing literature on the ambivalence of fashion and dress by drawing on...  Read More >>

Kimono, Vanishing Tradition: Japanese Textiles of the 20th Century

Kimono, Vanishing Tradition: Japanese Textiles of the...

Author: Cheryl Imperatore ,  Paul MacLardy
ISBN: 9780764312281
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Kimono is a generic term for traditional Japanese clothing; it means thing to wear. This book provides an overview...  Read More >>

Undressing Religion: Commitment and Conversion from a Cross-Cultural Perspective

Undressing Religion: Commitment and Conversion from...

Author: Linda B. Arthur
ISBN: 9781859734803
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Investigates how dress symbolically evidences both religious and social systems across a range of cultures - from...  Read More >>

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