The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Social Theory [2 ed.] 0745689396, 9780745689395

Fashion and Age: Dress, the Body and Later Life 9781847886965, 9781847886958, 9781474290340, 9781472520128

Throughout history certain forms and styles of dress have been deemed appropriate - or more significantly, inappropriate

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Fashion Foundations: Early Writings on Fashion and Dress 9780857854070, 9781859736142

Although it can be difficult to think of fashion in anything other than a contemporary context, as a concept it is hardl

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Religion, Dress and the Body: Dress, Body, Culture 9781847888839, 9781859732922, 9781859732977

Religions constrain the bodies of their members through dress. In many cases, dress immediately identifies a member of t

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The Japanese Revolution in Paris Fashion: Dress, Body, Culture 9781847888907, 9781859738108, 9781859738153, 9781845209575

Despite recent challenges from New York, London and Milan, Paris is renowned as the greatest fashion capital in the worl

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Fashion and Feeling: The Affective Politics of Dress 3031190998, 9783031190995

Fashion and Feeling: The Affective Politics of Dress explores the complex nexus of fashion and the feeling body from a v

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Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress 9780674982376

For many Westerners, the veil is the ultimate sign of women’s oppression. But Liz Bucar’s take on Muslim women’s clothin

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Fashion-ology: An Introduction to Fashion Studies (Dress, Body, Culture) [1st ed.] 1859738141, 9781859738146, 1859738095, 9781859738092, 9781845207175

This book provides a concise and much-needed introduction to the sociology of fashion. Most studies do not make a clear

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Fashion Theory and the Visual Semiotics of the Body [1 ed.] 1527585824, 9781527585829

Instead of the logic of representation of fashion in the light of modern society and postmodern culture, this book argue

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Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History 9781501180095

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Fashion, Dress and Post-postmodernism 9781350115163, 9781350115934, 9781350115170

Scholars have argued that postmodernism is dead and that we are entering into a new era that some have labelled altermod

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