Fashioned From Penury

Author : Margaret Maynard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521459259
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fashioned from Penury written by Margaret Maynard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first white settlement clothing was of vast social significance to Australians. It was central to the ways class and status were negotiated and equally significant for marking out sexual differences. Dress was implicated in definitions of morality, in the relationship between Europeans and Aboriginal people, and between convict and free. This book reveals the broader historical and cultural implications of clothes in Australia for the first time.

Author : Christopher Breward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108851487
Total Pages : 849 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 1 written by Christopher Breward and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I surveys the long history of fashion from the ancient world to c. 1800. The volume seeks to answer fundamental questions on the origins of fashion, challenging Eurocentric explanations that the emergence of fashion was a European phenomenon and shows instead that fashion found early expressions across the globe well before the age of European colonialism and imperialism. It sheds light on how fashion was experienced in a multitude of ways depending on class, gender, and race, and despite geographical distance, fashion connected populations across the globe. Fashions flowered and were reseeded, through entanglements of empire, forced and voluntary migration, evolving racial systems, burgeoning sea travel and transcontinental systems.

Author : Robert Ross
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 074563186X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clothing written by Robert Ross and published by Polity. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In virtually all the countries of the world, men, and to a lesser extent women, are today dressed in very similar clothing. This book gives a compelling account and analysis of the process by which this has come about. At the same time it takes seriously those places where, for whatever reason, this process has not occurred, or has been reversed, and provides explanations for these developments. The first part of this story recounts how the cultural, political and economic power of Europe and, from the later nineteenth century North America, has provided an impetus for the adoption of whatever was at that time standard Western dress. Set against this, Robert Ross shows how the adoption of European style dress, or its rejection, has always been a political act, performed most frequently in order to claim equality with colonial masters, more often a male option, or to stress distinction from them, which women, perhaps under male duress, more frequently did. The book takes a refreshing global perspective to its subject, with all continents and many countries being discussed. It investigates not merely the symbolic and message-bearing aspects of clothing, but also practical matters of production and, equally importantly, distribution.

Author : Bonnie English
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521756495
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australian Fashion Unstitched written by Bonnie English and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian Fashion Unstitched provides a compelling survey of Australian fashion over the last sixty years.

Author : Juliet Ash
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857712217
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dress Behind Bars written by Juliet Ash and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From nineteenth-century broad arrows and black and white stripes to twenty first-century orange jumpsuits, prison clothing has both mirrored and bolstered the power of penal institutions over prisoners' lives. Vividly illustrated and based on original research, including throughout the voices of the incarcerated, this book is a pioneering history and investigation of prison dress, which demystifies the experience of what it is like to be an imprisoned criminal. Juliet Ash takes the reader on a journey from the production of prison clothing to the bodies of its wearers. She uncovers a history characterized by waves of reform, sandwiched between regimes that use clothing as punishment and discovers how inmates use their dress to surmount, subvert or survive these punishment cultures. She reveals the hoods, the masks, and pink boxer shorts, near nakedness, even twenty first-century 'civvies' to be not just other types of uniform but political embodiments of the surveillance of everyday life.

Author : Sandy Black
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472577442
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Fashion Studies written by Sandy Black and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Fashion Studies identifies an innovative spectrum of thematic approaches, key strands and interdisciplinary concepts that continue to push forward the boundaries of fashion studies. The book is divided into seven sections: Fashion, Identity and Difference; Spaces of Fashion; Fashion and Materiality; Fashion, Agency and Policy; Science, Technology and New fashion; Fashion and Time and, Sustainable Fashion in a Globalised world. Each section consists of approximately four essays authored by established researchers in the field from the UK, USA, Netherlands, Sweden, Canada and Australia. The essays are written by international subject specialists who each engage with their section's theme in the light of their own discipline and provide clear case-studies to further knowledge on fashion. This consistency provides clarity and permits comparative analysis. The handbook will be essential reading for students of fashion as well as professionals in the industry.

Author : Joanne Finkelstein
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814726828
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fashion written by Joanne Finkelstein and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With epigrams from Genesis to Oscar Wilde, Finkelstein examines the historical, social, psychological, and economic seams of haute couture fashion as reflected in the wide-ranging index entries: anthropology, Barbie doll, cinema, feminism, globalization, Lauren (Ralph), psychoanalysis, upward mobility, and zoot suits. Originally published by Melbourne U. Press, 1996. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Adam Geczy
Publisher : Berg
ISBN 13 : 0857852132
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fashion and Art written by Adam Geczy and published by Berg. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For at least two centuries, fashion and art have maintained a competitive love-hate relationship. Both fashion and art construct imaginary worlds, and use a language of style to invigorate beliefs, perceptions and ideas. Until now the crossovers of fashion and art have received only scattered treatment and suffered from a dearth of theorization. As an attempt to theorize the area, this collection of new and updated essays is the most well-rounded and authoritative to date. Some of the world's foremost scholars in the field are assembled here to explore the art-fashion nexus in numerous ways: from aesthetics and performance to masquerade and media. Original and inspiring, this book will not only secure 'art-fashion' as a discrete area of study, but also suggest new critical pathways for exploring their continuing cross-pollination. Fashion and Art is essential reading for students and scholars of fashion, art history and theory, cultural studies and related fields.

Author : Lorinda Cramer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350069647
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Needlework and Women’s Identity in Colonial Australia written by Lorinda Cramer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In gold-rush Australia, social identity was in flux: gold promised access to fashionable new clothes, a grand home, and the goods to furnish it, but could not buy gentility. Needlework and Women's Identity in Colonial Australia explores how the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters who migrated to the newly formed colony of Victoria used their needle skills as a powerful claim to social standing. Focusing on one of women's most common daily tasks, the book examines how needlework's practice and products were vital in the contest for social position in the turmoil of the first two decades of the Victorian rush from 1851. Placing women firmly at the center of colonial history, it explores how the needle became a tool for stitching together identity. From decorative needlework to household making and mending, women's sewing was a vehicle for establishing, asserting, and maintaining social status. Interdisciplinary in scope, Needlework and Women's Identity in Colonial Australia draws on material culture, written primary sources, and pictorial evidence, to create a rich portrait of the objects and manners that defined genteel goldfields living. Giving voice to women's experiences and positioning them as key players in the fabric of gold-rush society, this volume offers a fresh critical perspective on gender and textile history.

Author : Laura Petican
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848882114
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trending Now: New Developments in Fashion Studies written by Laura Petican and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary book aims to advance knowledge in the field of fashion studies. It offers diverse perspectives on fashion related to identity formation, fashion's industries, theory, and media.