Defining dress : dress as object, meaning, and identity / edited by Amy de la Haye and Elizabeth Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De La Haye, Amy.

Wilson, Elizabeth, 1936-

Series:

Studies in design and material culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Costume--Social aspects.

Costume.

Costume--History.

Physical Description:

160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Summary:

Contained here is an attractive collection of essays, bringing together contemporary research into the history of dress. The essays reflect how garments may be researched as discrete objects, as part of consumer culture, and as components of created meaning which are expressive of personal identity and social belonging.

Contents:

2 Dashing Amazons: the development of women's riding dress, c. 1500-1900 / Janet Arnold 10

3 Wool cloth and gender: the use of woollen cloth in women's dress in Britain, 1865-85 / Lou Taylor 30

4 Renouncing consumption: men, fashion and luxury, 1870-1914 / Christopher Breward 48

5 That little magic touch: the headtie / Carol Tulloch 63

6 Religious dress in Italy in the late Middle Ages / Cordelia Warr 79

7 The mantua: its evolution and fashionable significance in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Avril Hart 93

8 Muses and mythology: classical dress in British eighteenth-century female portraiture / Aileen Ribeiro 104

9 Dressing for art's sake: Gwen John, the Bon Marche and the spectacle of the women artist in Paris / Alicia Foster 114

10 The aesthetics of absence: clothes without people in paintings / Juliet Ash 128

11 Invisible men: gay men's dress in Britain, 1950-70 / Shaun Cole 143.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0719053285

0719053293

OCLC:

43323798