The Study of Dress History Paperback / softback
by Lou Taylor
Part of the Studies in Design and Material Culture series
Paperback / softback
Description
Over the past ten years the study of dress history has finally achieved academic respectability.
This book shows how the fields of dress history and dress studies are now benefitting from the adoption of new multi-disciplinary approaches and outlines the full range of these approaches which draw on material culture, ethnography, and cultural studies.
Raises a series of frank and fresh issues surrounding approaches to the history of dress, including analysis of the academic gender and subject divides that have riven it in the past.
Comprehensive, engaging and trenchant, this will become the benchmark volume in the study of dress history. -- .
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:296 pages, Illustrations, black & white|Illustrations, colour
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:21/02/2002
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- ISBN:9780719040658
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:296 pages, Illustrations, black & white|Illustrations, colour
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:21/02/2002
- Category:
- ISBN:9780719040658
