Defining dress : dress as object, meaning, and identity / edited by Amy de la Haye and Elizabeth Wilson
- Bib ID:
- 1721506
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1999
- xiii, 160 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0719053293 (paperback)
- 0719053285
- Series:
- Studies in design and material culture.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction / Elizabeth Wilson and Amy De La Haye
- 2. Dashing Amazons: the development of women's riding dress, c. 1500-1900 / Janet Arnold
- 3. Wool cloth and gender: the use of woollen cloth in women's dress in Britain, 1865-85 / Lou Taylor
- 4. Renouncing consumption: men, fashion and luxury, 1870-1914 / Christopher Breward
- 5. That little magic touch: the headtie / Carol Tulloch
- 6. Religious dress in Italy in the late Middle Ages / Cordelia Warr
- 7. The mantua: its evolution and fashionable significance in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Avril Hart
- 8. Muses and mythology: classical dress in British eighteenth-century female portraiture / Aileen Ribeiro
- 9. Dressing for art's sake: Gwen John, the Bon Marche and the spectacle of the women artist in Paris / Alicia Foster
- 10. The aesthetics of absence: clothes without people in paintings / Juliet Ash
- 11. Invisible men: gay men's dress in Britain, 1950-70 / Shaun Cole.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Copyright:
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