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Defining dress : dress as object, meaning, and identity / edited by Amy de la Haye and Elizabeth Wilson.
Contributor(s): De La Haye, Amy
| Wilson, Elizabeth.
Material type: 
BookSeries: Studies in design and material culture.Publisher: Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1999Description: xiii, 160 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0719053285; 0719053293 (pbk.).Subject(s): Clothing and dress -- Social aspects | Costume -- HistoryDDC classification: 391
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 391 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00072934 |
Total holds: 0
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Contained here is an attractive collection of essays, bringing together contemporary research into the history of dress. The essays reflect how garments may be researched as discrete objects, as part of consumer culture, and as components of created meaning which are expressive of personal identity and social belonging.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of illustrations (p. vi)
- Notes on contributors (p. x)
- 1 Introduction (p. 1)
- 2 Dashing Amazons: the development of women's riding dress, c. 1500-1900 (p. 10)
- 3 Wool cloth and gender: the use of woollen cloth in women's dress in Britain, 1865-85 (p. 30)
- 4 Renouncing consumption: men, fashion and luxury, 1870-1914 (p. 48)
- 5 That little magic touch: the headtie (p. 63)
- 6 Religious dress in Italy in the late Middle Ages (p. 79)
- 7 The mantua: its evolution and fashionable significance in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (p. 93)
- 8 Muses and mythology: classical dress in British eighteenth-century female portraiture (p. 104)
- 9 Dressing for art's sake: Gwen John, the Bon Marche and the spectacle of the women artist in Paris (p. 114)
- 10 The aesthetics of absence: clothes without people in paintings (p. 128)
- 11 Invisible men: gay men's dress in Britain, 1950-70 (p. 143)
- Index (p. 155)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Amy De la Haye is Curator of Twentieth-Century Dress at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.Elizabeth Wilson is Professor of Media Studies at the University of North London.