"Fashion History: A Global View proposes a new perspective on fashion history. Arguing that fashion has occurred in cultures beyond the West throughout history, this groundbreaking book explores the geographic places and historical spaces that have been largely neglected by contemporary fashion studies, bringing them together for the first time.Reversing the dominant narrative that privileges Western Europe in the history of dress, Welte ..."
The Fashion Reader(2nd Edition) Second Edition by Linda Welters, AbbyLillethun Paperback, 736 Pages, Published 2011 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-84788-589-0, ISBN: 1-84788-589-6
"This new edition of a bestselling textbook is designed for students, scholars, and anyone interested in contemporary fashion. The book brings together the key writings on the subject, covering the history, culture, and business of fashion. The extracts are drawn from a wide range of sources -- books, professional and academic journals, magazines, interviews, and exhibition catalogs. Each section is specially introduced and concludes wit ..."
"The Fashion Reader is designed for students, scholars, and anyone interested in contemporary fashion. The book brings together the key writings on the subject, covering the history, culture, and business of fashion. The extracts are drawn from a wide range of sources--books, professional and academic journals, magazines, interviews and exhibition catalogues. Each section is specially introduced and concludes with guides to further readi ..."
"Fashion History: A Global View proposes a new perspective on fashion history. Arguing that fashion has occurred in cultures beyond the West throughout history, this groundbreaking book explores the geographic places and historical spaces that have been largely neglected by contemporary fashion studies, bringing them together for the first time.Reversing the dominant narrative that privileges Western Europe in the history of dress, Welte ..."
The Fashion Reader(2nd Edition) Second Edition by Linda Welters, AbbyLillethun Hardcover, 736 Pages, Published 2011 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-84788-590-6, ISBN: 1-84788-590-X
"This new edition of a bestselling textbook is designed for students, scholars, and anyone interested in contemporary fashion. The book brings together the key writings on the subject, covering the history, culture, and business of fashion. The extracts are drawn from a wide range of sources -- books, professional and academic journals, magazines, interviews, and exhibition catalogs. Each section is specially introduced and concludes wit ..."
The Fashion Reader by AbbyLillethun Hardcover, Published 2022 by Bloomsbury Visual Arts ISBN-13: 978-1-350-11866-9, ISBN: 1-350-11866-4
"Fashion today is produced and consumed globally. It is dependent on a rapidly changing infrastructure influenced by art, popular culture, technological innovation, politics, and trade regulations. Moreover, fashion constantly references ideas and cultures from around the world, both past and present. The Fashion Reader is designed for students, scholars, and anyone interested in contemporary fashion. The book brings together the key wri ..."
"The clothes we wear tell stories about us and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States. The clothing artifacts documented here have been or are now regularly worn by Americans as everyday clothing, fashion, ethnic or religious identifiers, or s ..."
"Fashion History: A Global View proposes a new perspective on fashion history. Arguing that fashion has occurred in cultures beyond the West throughout history, this groundbreaking book explores the geographic places and historical spaces that have been largely neglected by contemporary fashion studies, bringing them together for the first time.Reversing the dominant narrative that privileges Western Europe in the history of dress, Welte ..."
"This new edition of a bestselling textbook is designed for students, scholars, and anyone interested in contemporary fashion. The book brings together the key writings on the subject, covering the history, culture, and business of fashion. The essays are drawn from a wide range of sources - books, professional and academic journals, magazines, interviews, and exhibition catalogues. Each section is specially introduced and concludes with ..."
"The final edicts restricting use of court batik patterns occurred in 1927, well after
the public had adopted them for their own use (Heringa 2010: 180). The desire of
the non-regal ... in an artisan workshop: the arrival of machine-made cotton cloth
from Europe, whose fineness and regularity greatly eased the achievement of
sharp, evenly printed designs (Gittinger 2005: 45). As a result of these factors ...
pursuit of fashionabilit ..."
"Some travelers from outside Asia, as noted by Braudel in the quote above,
perceived Chinese dress as unchanging and therefore not engaged in a fashion
process; however, Christine Tsui (2016) argued to the contrary. In her
etymological study offashion in Chinese culture, Tsui demonstrated that fashion
is autochthonous to Chinese culture and that it was present in the first millennium
in the Tang. Tsui explained that the concept of f ..."