Fashion & society books

"The first two issues in 1999 of this journal feature articles on ""Women and the veil"" by Fadwa El Guindi of the...  Read More >>

Exploring representations of the feminine and masculine body - from super-vamp to super-waif, from buffalo boy to...  Read More >>

Dress provides a window for viewing culture, because it visually attests to the salient ideas, concepts and categories...  Read More >>

Exploring representations of the feminine and masculine body - from super-vamp to super-waif, from buffalo boy to...  Read More >>

Dress provides a window for viewing the culture of a community, because it visually attests to its salient ideas,...  Read More >>

A guide to the history, techniques, preservation and collection of fashion beads which includes a price guide.  Read More >>

These articles were written between 1910 and 1920 by the Paris hairstylist, Emile Long, in order to keep English...  Read More >>

Presenting the history of fashion, this title tells the story of men's and women's fashionable dress. It features...  Read More >>

These articles were written between 1910 and 1920 by the Paris hairstylist, Emile Long, in order to keep English...  Read More >>

Drawing examples from a range of African cultures, this book focuses on the art patronage systems that stimulate...  Read More >>

Drawing examples from a range of African cultures, this book focuses on the art patronage systems that stimulate...  Read More >>

For over two centuries, in the North as well as the South, both within their own community and in the public arena,...  Read More >>

"Includes: ""Masks, Mirrors and Mannequins: Elsa Schiaparelli and the Decentred Subject""; ""Transvesty - Travesty:...  Read More >>

From African-American women's headwraps to beauty pageants in Swaziland, this absorbing book explores ethnicity...  Read More >>

Charming coloring book chronicles six centuries of Japanese fashion history. Warriors, exquisite court ladies, commoners,...  Read More >>

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From one-of-a-kind hand made fashion to commercially made highly decorative apparel, wearable art has become an...  Read More >>

Innumerable references to the foot and to foot worship in Indian culture convey the impression that the foot is...  Read More >>

This book examines beads in Western and Central Asia from the eastern Mediterranean to Mesopotamia, Iran and Afghanistan,...  Read More >>

Fashion for the family from Sears Catalogs of the mid-1960s. Images of mohair sweaters, cardigan sets, bloomer playsuits,...  Read More >>

This text shows the strength of the French fashion industry rests on the depth and sophistication of its fashion...  Read More >>

A facsimile edition of Costume and Fashion: Senlac to Bosworth published by J. M. Dent, London, in 1927. It was...  Read More >>

A comprehensive text and over 440 photographs of authentic children's fashions from the 18th century through the...  Read More >>

Over 400 color photos illustrate the development of the necktie from 1900 through the Roaring Twenties, the Depression,...  Read More >>

Includes the topics Methodology; Cultures, Identities, Histories; Re-Fashioning Art - Some Visual Approaches to...  Read More >>