Classic and modern writings on fashion

Format:

Online Resource

Language:

English

Imprint:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Subject:

Fashion - History
Clothing and dress - History
Fashion design - History

Contributor:

McNeil, Peter, editor

ISBN:

9781847887153, 1847887155, 9781847885067, 1847885063, 9781847882929, and 1847882927

Description:

1 online resource

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Art and Life -- The Medieval Aesthetic Sensibility -- Society and Festivals -- Order and Fashion in Clothes: The King, His Household, and the City of London at the End of the Fifteenth Century -- Summer: The Last Century -- Between Clothing and Nudity -- The Upward Training of the Body from the Age of Chivalry to Courtly Civility -- The Renaissance Beard: Masculinity in Early Modern England -- Venice and the Dress of Foreigners -- Clothing Provision and the Great Wardrobe in the Mid-Thirteenth Century -- The Currency of Clothing -- Gendered Space in Renaissance Florence: Theorizing Public and Private in the "Rag Trade" -- The Economics of Clothing in the Late Seventeenth Century -- Looks and Appearance -- Gesture, Ritual, and Social Order in Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Poland -- Prescribing Fashion: Dress, Politics and Gender in Sixteenth-Century Italian Conduct Literature -- Masculine Apparel -- To Fashion a Self: Dressing in Seventeenth-Century England -- 'Twisted' Poses: The Kabuku Aesthetic in Early Edo Genre Painting -- The Cavaliers and the Parvenus as Imitators of the Court -- Lord Chesterfield's Letters to His Son -- Eros and Liberty at the English Masquerade, 1710-90 -- Popular Dress -- Fleshing Out the Revolution -- Consumer Behaviour, Textiles and Dress in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries -- European Consumption and Asian Production in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- Developing Consumerism and the Ready-made Clothing Trade in Britain, 1750-1800 -- Involuntary Consumers? Servants and Their Clothes in Eighteenth-Century England -- The Treatises of Dandyism -- The Invisible Flâneur -- The Actress: Covent Garden and the Strand 1880-1914 -- Tigersprung: Fashioning History -- The Love of Finery: Fashion and the Fallen Woman in Nineteenth-Century Social Discourse -- The Exquisite Slave: The Role of Clothes in the Making of the Victorian Woman -- Dress Reform as Antifeminism: A Response to Helene E. Roberts's "The Exquisite Slave: The Role of Clothes in the Making of the Victorian Woman" -- Reply to David Kunzle's "Dress Reform as Antifeminism: A Response to Helene E. Roberts's 'The Exquisite Slave'" (vol. 2, no. 3) -- Fashion - Jewellery -- Fashion -- Consuming Kashmir: Shawls and Empires, 1500-2000 -- The Management of Colour: The Kashmir Shawl in a Nineteenth-Century Debate -- Sartorial Ideologies: From Homespun to Ready-Made -- Cheap Mass-Produced Men's Clothing in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Invisible Clothing -- Wool Cloth and Gender: The Use of Woollen Cloth in Women's Dress in Britain, 1865-85 -- Materializing Mourning: Hair, Jewellery and the Body -- Femininity and Consumption: The Problem of the Late Nineteenth-Century Fashion Journal -- 'A Dream of Fair Women': Revival Dress and the Formation of Late Victorian Images of Femininity -- Femme Fatale: Fashion and Visual Culture in Fin-de-siècle Paris -- Sex and the City: Metropolitan Modernities in English History -- Dress as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture -- The Philosophy of Fashion --The Economic and Social Rôle of Fashion -- The Cerementing of the Gentleman -- The Predominance of Male Homosociality -- Epilogue on Trousers -- An Economic Interpretation of Women's Fashions -- Themes in Cosmetics and Grooming -- Fashion: From Class Differentiation to Collective Selection -- Why the Midi Failed -- The Production of Belief: Contribution to an Economy of Symbolic Goods -- Fashion Shapes: Film, the Fashion Industry, and the Image of Women -- Other People's Clothes? The International Secondhand Clothing Trade and Dress Practices in Zambia -- The Golden Dustman: A Critical Evaluation of the Work of Martin Margiela and a Review of Martin Margiela: Exhibition (9/4/1615) -- Art, Fashion and Music in the Culture Society -- Vionnet ... Classicism -- Paul Poiret's Minaret Style: Originality, Reproduction, and Art in Fashion -- Magic Fashion

Summary:

"The serious analysis of clothing and fashion has a long history. The Classic and Modern Writings on Fashion area of the Berg Fashion Library contains seminal writings on fashion, including classic and contemporary essays and primary sources. As a whole they form the foundations of fashion theory and methodology, and are essential for scholarly research in fashion, dress and costume. Essays included in Classic and Modern Writings on Fashion previously appeared in Fashion: Critical and Primary Sources (2009), edited by Peter McNeil."--Bloomsbury Fashion Central

Call Number:

GT580 .C58 2020