A CULTURAL HISTORY OF FASHION IN THE 20TH CENTURY - FROM THE CATWALK TO THE SIDEWALK Bonnie English
Published: 2007
The 20th Century saw the end of haute couture, the rise of pret a porter and, the triumph of street fashion. This work unravels the complexities and contradictions behind these changes to chart the history of modern fashion. It presents an engaging history of the interplay between commerce and culture, technology and aesthetics, and more

£14.99 ISBN: 9781845203429 UK

A DEDICATED FOLLOWER OF FASHION Holly Brubach
Published: 1999
This collection of 28 fashion essays previously published in "The New York Times Magazine", "The New Yorker" and "The Atlantic" examines clothing and fashion as part of a larger cultural debate and as a barometer of social and aesthetic change. In essays published during the 1980s and 1990s, the author reflects on a broad range of fashion subjects, from famous designers to designer eyeglasses, from the elegance of a Chanel suit to the decline of elegance itself in the 1990s, from Gianni Versace's legitimisation of vulgarity to the advent of athletic clothing as a fashion uniform. Longer essays from "The New Yorker" and "The Atlantic" are interspersed with 450-word pieces from the "The New York Times Magazine"

£19.95 Order Only ISBN: 9780714838878 UK

ADORNED IN DREAMS - FASHION AND MODERNITY Elizabeth Wilson
Published: 2003
Traces the social and cultural history of fashion and its complex relationship to modernity, also discusses fashion's vociferous opponents, from the `dress reform' movement to certain strands of feminism

£17.50 ISBN: 9781860649219 UK

AGAINST FASHION - CLOTHING AS ART 1850-1930 Radu Stern
He discusses contributions to the new art form by various artistic movements of the historical avant-garde, including Art Nouveau, the Werkbund, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and the Bauhaus; he examines the work of such key figures as Henry van de Velde, Gustav Klimt, and Sonia Delaunay . The book includes more than 100 illustrations, many in color , as well as an anthology of essential writings and documents by artists and writers of the period, some of them translated into English for the first time. The artists and works examined display a diversity of styles and ideas, but all share the desire to reject the mercantile logic of commercial fashion and replace it with a utopian "anti-fashion."

£24.75 ISBN: 9780262693295

APPEARANCE AND POWER Kim P Johnson/Sharron J Lennon
Published: 1999
This text tackles the subject of how appearance affects social interaction, and the role of larger social structures in perpetuating and institutionalizing it as an evaluation criterion. It asks questions such as what role does women's dress play in others' perceptions of consent in cases of rape?

£16.99 ISBN: 9781859732045 UK

£14.99 ISBN: 9781859739952 UK

BEYOND GREEN - PROGRESS IN FASHION AND SUSTAINABILITY INCL DVD
Published: 2008
Beyond Green creates order in the chaos and ignorance around this topic, which is more relevant than ever. Social responsibility will dominate the agenda in many branches, the creative one as well. The composers invited an elite group of international specialists to contribute to this book. It makes Beyond Green indispensable not only for professionals and students, but also for everyone who is interested in the social discussion about this topic

£26.75 ISBN: 9789089100405 NETHERLANDS

BODY DRESSING Joanne Entwistle/Elizabeth Wilson
Published: 2001
Deals with a vast range of questions inherent in dressing up the body, from fashion photography in the 1960s to contemporary queer fashion and the history of the masquerade

£16.99 ISBN: 9781859734445 UK

BOHEMIANS - THE GLAMOROUS OUTCASTS Elizabeth Wilson
Published: 2003
Since the early 19th century, the bohemian has been the protagonist of the story the West has wanted to hear about its artists - a story of genius, glamour, and doom. With a huge cast of real-life characters, this book analyzes the many shifting meanings that constitute bohemia.

£12.99 ISBN: 9781860647826 UK

BOUND TO PLEASE - A HISTORY OF THE VICTORIAN CORSET Leigh Summers
Published: 2001
Provocative book examines the role of corsetry in the minds and lives of Victorian women, also reveals how the `steels and bones', which damaged bodies and undermined mental health

£17.99 ISBN: 9781859735107 UK

BRITISH FASHION DESIGN Angela McRobbie
Published: 1998
Exploring the tensions fashion as art form, and the demands of a ruthlessly commercial industry , Angela McRobbie charts the flow of art school fashion graduates into the industry; their attempts to reconcile training with practice, and their precarious position between the twin supports of the education system and the commercial sector

£20.99 ISBN: 9780415057813 UK

BROKEN THREADS - THE DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWISH FASHION INDUSTRY IN GERMANY AND AUSTRIA Roberta S Kremer
Published:2008
Chronicles this moment of cultural loss, detailing the rise of Jewish design and its destruction at the hands of the Nazis. Superbly illustrated with photographs and fashion plates from the collection of Claus Jahnke, "Broken Threads" explores this little-known part of fashion and of Nazi history

£17.99 ISBN: 9781845206604 UK

CASUALS - FOOTBALL, FIGHTING AND FASHION, THE STORY OF A TERRACE CULT Phil Thornton
Published: 2003
Recounts how the working class fascination with sharp dressing and sartorial one upmanship crystallised the often bitter rivalries of the hooligan crews and how their culture spread across the terraces, clubs and beyond

£7.99 ISBN: 9781903854143 UK

CHANGING FASHION - A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION TO TREND ANALYSIS AND CULTURAL MEANING Annette Lynch/Mitchell Strauss
Published: 2007
Changing trends in fashion have always reflected large-scale social and cultural changes. This title presents a multi-disciplinary approach to examining fashion change, bringing together theory from fashion studies, cultural studies, sociology, psychology and art history, amongst others. It is intended for the undergraduate student of fashion

£16.99 ISBN: 9781845203900 UK

CHIC THRILLS - A FASHION READER
Juliet Ash/Elizabeth Wilson
Published: 1992
This book aims to fill a major gap in fashion writing - between cultural theory and the diverse strands of the industry itself. The contributors draw material from throughout the world, covering such issues as: the relationship between black and non-European cultures to Western fashion; haute couture and street fashion; the ecological concerns of fashion; and the workers within the industry

£14.99 ISBN: 9780044408246 UK

CLOTH, DRESS AND ART PATRONAGE IN AFRICA Judith M Perani/Norma H Wolff
Published: 1999
In blending the concerns of art history and anthropology, the authors focus on the art patronage systems that stimulate production, consumption, commodification and cultural meaning, and emphasize the overriding importance of cloth to aesthetic and cultural expression in African societies

£14.99 ISBN: 9781859732953 UK

CLOTHING AS MATERIAL CULTURE Susanne Kuchler/Daniel Miller
Published: 2005
In recent years, there has been a spate of books theorizing fashion. Few, however, take on board the artefactual nature of cloth. In contrast, costume historians have looked closely at garments, but have shown less concern with how clothing is informed by social structures. This book fills a major gap by combining these two 'camps' through an expressly material culture approach to clothing. In sustained case studies, Kuchler and Miller argue that cloth and clothing are living, vibrant parts of culture and the body. From the recycling of cloth in Africa and India and the use of pattern in the Pacific, to the history of 'wash and wear' and why women wear the wrong clothes to restaurants, this book shows the considerable advantage gained by seamlessly combining material and social aspects of dress and textiles.

£16.99 Order Only ISBN: 9781845200671 UK

CLOTHING THE PACIFIC Chloe Colchester
Published: 2003
Looks at the multiple histories of cloth and clothing in the Pacific

£15.99 ISBN: 9781859736715 UK

COLLECTING COLONIALISM - MATERIAL CULTURE AND COLONIAL CHANGE Chris Gosden/Chantal Knowles
Published: 2001
Successfully combines a specific geographical focus with an interest in the broader questions that surround colonial relations, historical change and the history of anthropology

£14.99 ISBN: 9781859734087 UK

COUTURE CULTURE Nancy J Troy
Published: 2004
A study of the multiple connections between art and haute couture, in particular the activities of Paul Poiret, focusing on the tension between originality and reproduction in fashion, theater, and visual art.

£20.00 Order Only ISBN: 9780262701037 UK

DEFINING DRESS - DRESS AS OBJECT , MEANING AND IDENTITY
Amy de la Haye/Elizabeth Wilson
Published: 1999
The essays reflect this moment in the study of fashion, showing how in the late 1990s 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

£15.99 ISBN: 0719053293 UK

DELUXE - HOW LUXURY LOST ITS LUSTRE Dana Thomas
Published:2007
"Deluxe" is an uncompromising and rollicking read about the real world behind the glossy spreads in magazines and fantastic dresses on the red carpet. What is the new definition of luxury when the advertising for the luxury lifestyle is targeted mainly towards the middle-class masses? What are we paying for when quality is no longer quality? How did luxury lose its luster?

£20.00 ISBN: 9780713998238 UK

DESIGNING CLOTHES - CULTURE AND ORGANIZATION OF THE FASHION INDUSTRY Veronica Manlow
Published: 2007
Veronica Manlow considers the broader significance of fashion in society, the creative process of fashion design, and how fashion unfolds in an organizational context where design is conceived and executed . Fashion firms are not just in the business of selling clothing along with a variety of sidelines. These companies must also sell a larger concept around which people can identify and distinguish themselves from others. Manlow defines the four main tasks of a fashion firm as creation of an image, translation of that image into a product, presentation of the product, and selling the product

£30.00 ISBN: 9780765803986 USA

DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL - GAYS MENS DRESS IN THE 20TH CENTURY Shaun Cole
Published: 2000
Beginning with a look at the subculture world of gay men in the early part of this century, particularly in New York and London, this book analyzes the trends in dress adopted by gay men as well as the challenge gay style has made to mainstream mens fashion

£16.99 ISBN: 9781859734209 UK

DRESS AND ETHNICITY - CHANGE ACROSS SPACE AND TIME Joanne B Eicher
Published: 1995
This book will interest anyone wishing to understand and explore ethnicity through this fascinating and effective means of communication

£17.99 Order Only ISBN: 9781859730034 UK

DRESS AND GENDER - MAKING AND MEANING Ruth Barnes/Joanne B Eicher
Published: 1992
A collection of studies addressing the relationship between dress and gender and costume as a significant marker of gender identity. The book covers a great variety of ethnographic areas including Africa, Southeast Asia, Japan, North and South America and Europe

£15.99 ISBN: 9780854968657 UK

DRESS AND GLOBALISATION Margaret Maynard
Published: 2004
This work surveys dress and identity of cultures around the world. It draws on issues of consumption, ethnicity, gender and the body, as well as anthropological accounts and studies of representation.

£14.99 ISBN: 9780719063893 UK

DRESS AND IDENTITY Mary Roach-Higgins/Joanne Eicher/Kim Johnson
Published: 1995
The editors bring together a fascinating collection of readings to illustrate the importance of dress both as a means of communication a\nd in the development and maintenance of identity

£28.00 ISBN: 1563670577 USA

DRESS AND MORALITY Aileen Ribeiro
Published: 2003
Moralists have raged throughout history against various fashions for being too short, too long, too tight, too loose or too costly. Highlighting the times when choice of dress was a moral minefield, this enlightening and entertaining book looks at fashion extremes over the centuries, from the sexual display of the codpiece through to corsets, crinolines and decolletage. Providing a sharp and humorous look at the outright risque as well as the grotesquely exaggerated and even the repulsive, Ribeiro shows how dress has functioned variously as a vehicle of righteousness or turpitude and as an expression of sexuality, class or social status

£17.99 ISBN: 9781859737828 UK

DRESS CODES - MEANINGS AND MESSAGES IN AMERICAN CULTURE
Ruth P Rubinstein
Published: 1995
An analysis of the meaning and relevance of clothing in American culture. The book presents 19th-century theories of clothing and an up-to-date analysis of the images of power and authority, gender, seduction , wealth and beauty, youth and health, and leisure and political hierarchy

£17.95 ISBN: 0813322839 USA

DRESS SENSE - EMOTIONAL AND SENSORY EXPERIENCES OF THE BODY AND CLOTHES D C Johnson/H B Foster
Published:2007
Explores the importance of the senses and emotions in the way people dress, and how they attach value and significance to clothing. This work offers different multi-disciplinary perspectives on this key topic in dress and sensory anthropology. It is useful in understanding the cross-cultural , emotional and sensual experience of dress and clothing

£19.99 ISBN: 9781845206932 UK

DRESS, GENDER AND CULTURAL CHANGE - ASIAN AMERICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN RITES OF PASSAGE Annette Lynch
Published: 1999
Shows that within the homogenizing context of American society, dress serves as a site for the continual renegotiation of identity - gendered, ethnic and otherwise

£15.99 ISBN: 9781859739792 UK

DRESSED IN FICTION Clair Hughes
Published: 2006
Dressed in Fiction traces the deployment of dress in key fictional texts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from Defoe's Roxana to Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Edith Wharton's House of Mirth.

£17.99 ISBN: 9781845201722 UK

DRESSED TO IMPRESS - LOOKING THE PART William J.F.Keenan
Published: 2001
Shows how the dressed body is central to the construction of a recognizable identity and provides accessible accounts of the particular dress `ways' associated with a considerable variety of lifestyles

£17.99 ISBN: 9781859734605 UK

£17.99 ISBN: 9781859737514 UK

DRESSING UP DEBUTANTES - PAGEANTRY AND GLITZ IN TEXAS Michaele Thurgood Haynes
Published: 1998
Provides a significant contribution to the study of social elites in Western society through a material culture analysis of the Coronation costumes worn by the Euro-American debutantes

£14.99 ISBN: 9781859739396 UK

£24.95 ISBN: 9781906155094 UK

ESTABLISHING DRESS HISTORY Lou Taylor
Published: 2004
Lou Taylor argues that only when women were permitted to be curators of dress within museum did the collection of all kinds of dress find its proper place in our museums of decorative arts, social history and ethnography. Chapters cover debates related to dress collecting in such institutions, including discussion of the return of sacred objects, the place of contemporary fashion within museums and issues of the commodification of collections and displays. This book is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students on design, decorative arts, fashion and dress history courses, as well as those on museum studies and gender studies courses.

£17.99 Out of Print ISBN: 0719066395 UK

FABRICATIONS Charlotte Herzog/Jane M Gaines
Published: 1990
A series of essays which ask questions about the construction of the female body in post-industrial culture, and consider the connections between the female consumer and the female viewer, the motion picture industry and the fashion industry, and fashion in critical theory and reality

£16.99 Order Only ISBN: 9780415900621 UK

£12.95 ISBN: 9781861892911 UK

FASHION - OLOGY - AN INTRDUCTION TO FASHION STUDIES Yuniya Kawamura
Published: 2005
This book provides a concise and much-needed introduction to the sociology of fashion. Most studies of fashion do not make a clear distinction between clothing and fashion. Kawamura argues that clothing is a tangible material product whereas fashion is a symbolic cultural product. She debunks the myth of 'the genius designer' and explains, provocatively, that fashion is not about clothes but is a belief

£14.99 ISBN: 9781859738146 UK

FASHION AND COSTUME IN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE Valerie B Oliver
Published: 1996
Providing a look at fashion and costume literature and how it has develped historically, this volume discusses monographic and reference literature, and provides information on periodicals, research centres and costume museums and collection

£77.00 Order Only ISBN: 9780313294129 USA

FASHION AND ITS SOCIAL AGENDAS - CLASS, GENDER AND IDENTITY IN CLOTHING Diane Crane
Published: 2000
Using a wide range of historical and contemporary materials, this book demonstrates how the social significance of clothing has been transformed

£15.00 ISBN: 9780226117997 USA

FASHION AND MODERNITY C Breward/C Evans
Published: 2005
What is the relationship between fashion and modernity, and how is this unique relationship manisfested in the material world? This title considers how the relationship between fashion and modernity tests the very definition of modernity and enhances our understanding of the role of fashion in the modern world

£16.99 ISBN: 9781845200282

FASHION AND TEXTILES - AN OVERVIEW Colin Gale/Jasbir Kaur
Published: 2004
This essential book provides the first comprehensive overview of the symbiotic relationship that exists between fashion and textiles. Because textiles represent a central ingredient of fashion (as with denim jeans, for example), their interrelationship should be an obvious theme for study, yet historically the two subjects are often considered separately. Gale and Kaur analyze fashion and textile's cultural, industrial and social relationships, as well as examining how the two fields compete with and influence one another.

£17.99 Order Only ISBN: 1859738184 UK

FASHION AND WOMENS ATTITUDES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY C Willett
Cunnington
Published: 2003
This entertaining bok by an early 20th-century authority on fashion not only describes what Englishmen wore in the nineteenth century but also attempts to explain why they clothed themselves as they did. I a light, amusing and readable fashion,

£14.95 ISBN: 9780486431901 USA

FASHION AS COMMUNICATION (2nd Edition) Malcolm Barnard
Published: 2002
An interdisciplinary work for fashion and design students which analyses how fashion and clothing have been understood as a modern and postmodern phenomenon, drawing on theoretical approaches to culture and looking at such concepts as class and gender.

£17.50 Order Only ISBN: 0415260183 UK

FASHION AS PHOTOGRAPH - VIEWING AND REVIEWING IMAGES OF FASHION Eugenie Shinkle
Published: 2008
Photographic images are a driving force behind the fashion system, and they play a key role in defining global fashion culture. This work examines the production and consumption of fashion images from the points of view of industry and academia, the museum, the auction house, and the art gallery.

£16.99 ISBN: 9781845115173 UK

FASHION BODY CULT E Bippus/D Mink
2007
Ventures on an interdisciplinary approach that views fashion from many different angles, at once revealing its diversity and making it accessible. This book views fashion as communication between voices coming from very different directions.

£35.00 ISBN: 9783897902640 GERMANY

FASHION CLASSICS FROM CARLYLE TO BARTHES Michael Carter
Published: 2003
Fashion Classics provides an interpretative overview of the groundbreaking and often idiosyncratic writings of eight theorists whose work has profoundly influenced the conceptual and theoretical basis of our contemporary understanding of clothes and the fashion system, also makes sense of complex theory and is essential reading for anyone seeking an overview of the history of fashion theory.

£15.99 ISBN: 9781859736067 UK

FASHION CULTURES - THEORIES, EXPLORATIONS AND ANALYSIS
Stella Bruzzi/Pamela Gibson
Published: 2000
From the catwalk to the shopping mail, from the big screen to the art museum, fashion plays an increasingly central role in contemporary culture. Fashion Cultures investigates why we are so fascinated by fashion

£23.00 ISBN: 9780415206860 UK

FASHION FOR PEOPLE - A HISTORY OF CLOTHING AT MARKS & SPENCER
Rachel Worth
Published: 2007
Marks and Spencer is an English institution synonymous with quality, reliability and customer care. This book considers the company's contribution to British and international fashion. It analyzes the unique ways in which Marks and Spencer has democratized fashion.

£15.99 ISBN: 9781845201746 UK ORDER ONLY

FASHION FOUNDATIONS Kim Johnson
Published: 2003
This key text reprints classic fashion writings, all of which have had a profound if perhaps untrumpeted impact on our understanding and approach to modern day dress - from the psychology of clothes through to collective fashion trends. Why do we wear clothes? What do they say about our self-awareness and body image? How can we 'fashion' new identities through what we wear?

£15.99 ISBN: 9781859736197 UK

FASHION SPREADS -
WORD AND IMAGE IN FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY SINCE 1980 Paul Jobling
Published: 1999
Exploring representations of the feminine and masculine body - from super-vamp to super-waif, from buffalo boy to new man - this book considers the social, economic and aesthetic factors that have been instrumental in forging an identity for fashion photography since 1980

£16.99 ISBN: 9781859732281 UK

FASHION UNDER FASCISM - BEYOND THE BLACK SHIRT Eugenia Paulcelli
Published: 2004
When we think of Italian fashion , Gucci, Max Mara and the meteoric rise of Prada immediately spring to mind. But Italian fashion has a dark history that has not previously been explored. The Fascism of 1930's Italy dominated more than just politics - it spilled over into modes of dress. Fashion under Fascism is the first book to consider this link in detail. Fashion often functions as a tacit means of making a social statement, but under Mussolini it vividly reflected political tyranny.

£15.99 Order Only ISBN: 9781859737781 UK

FASHION UNDER THE OCCUPATION Dominique Veillon
Published: 2002
Provides the only in-depth history of these blackest years in French history, long overlooked by fashion history because of the impoverished industry and deprivations that affected design

£14.99 ISBN: 9781859735480 UK

FASHION ZEITGEIST - TRENDS AND CYCLES IN THE FASHION SYSTEM
Barbara Vinken
Published: 2004
Looking at some of the most influential designers of the twentieth century, Vinken considers the politics and philosophies that have been the driving force directing their sense of style. Vinken describes 'Fashion Zeitgeist' as a trend characterized by representations of traces of the past. She considers the key concepts behind designers such as Yamamoto, Gaultier, and Lagerfeld. The originality of Yamamoto's multi-layered look stems from his philosophy that it is the individual sum of experience that is important, not the collective consequences of history. Martin Margiela, although he himself refuses to be photographed or appear in the public eye, brings new individuality into fashion. Chanel, under the direction of Karl Lagerfeld, is viewed as the only fashion house to have remained fresh after one hundred years, yet is this success essentially proof of the self-referential qualities fashion has adopted? What inspired the fetish for labels at the end of the twentieth century? Answering these questions and many more, this concise and thought-provoking book shows how beauty, gender, sexuality, commerce and dandyism have persisted in defining the fashion system.

£14.99 Order Only ISBN: 9781845200442

FASHION, DESIRE AND ANXIETY - IMAGE AND MORALITY IN THE 20TH CENTURY Rebecca Arnold
Published: 2001
Draws on diverse written sources to explore the complex nature of modern fashion, she discusses a range of key themes, how fashion uses and abuses the power of wealth, the alienating promotion of 'good' taste, plus many more

£19.99 Order Only ISBN: 9781860645556 UK

FASHION, CULTURE & IDENTITY Fred Davis
Published: 1992
How our ambivalent world revels itself through fashion

£11.00 ISBN: 9780226138091 USA

FASHIONING GOTHIC BODIES Catherine Spooner
Published: 2004

£15.99 ISBN: 9780719064012 UK

FASHIONING LONDON - CLOTHING AND THE MODERN METROPOLIS
Christopher Breward
Published: 2004
Over the past three centuries, London has established itself as one of the world's most inventive fashion capitals. City life and fashion have always been intertwined, but nowhere has this relationship been more excitingly expressed than on the streets of London. Fashioning London looks at the manner in which particular styles of dress became associated with this leading international city, ultimately challenging the dominance of Paris, Milan and New York.

£15.99 ISBN: 9781859737927 UK

FASHIONING SOCIALISM - CLOTHING, POLITICS AND CONSUMER CULTURE IN EAST GERMANY Judd Stitziel
Published: 2005
Fashioning Socialism is the first history of communist fashion in East Germany. Using clothing as a lens to read society, the author unveils wider tensions between the regime and the population and within the regime itself.In telling the surprising - and often bizarre - story of communist haute couture, fashion shows, seasonal clearance sales, the textile and garment industries, and everyday consumer practices, this book explores the paradoxical causes, forms, and consequences of East Germany's attempt to create a communist consumer culture during the Cold War. In attempting to compete with capitalism on the West's terms, East Germany unwittingly bred disgruntled consumers - consumers who ultimately tore down the Wall.

£17.99 ISBN: 1845202821 UK

FASHIONING THE BODY POLITIC Wendy Parkins
Published: 2002
Challenges the perception of helpless fashion victims, subject to manipulation by consumerism and the fashion industry

£16.99 ISBN: 9781859735879 UK

FASHIONING THE FEMININE - REPRESENTATION AND WOMENS FASHION FROM THE FIN DE SIECLE TO THE PRESENT Cheryl Buckley/Hilary Fawcett
Published: 2001
Raises important questions about womens experience in Britain now , exposed to an escalating fashion industry, potentially both liberating and disempowering, how do we - wearers, designers, fashion writers - negotiate both the dilemmas and the delights of ` fashioning femininity'

£18.99 ISBN: 9781860645068 UK

FASHIONING THE FRAME - BOUNDARIES, DRESS AND THE BODY
Alexandra Warwick/Dani Cavallaro
Published: 1998
This text presents a theory of what dress means in relation to the body. Identity relies on boundaries to individuate the self. Dress challenges boundaries: it frames the body and serves both to distinguish and connect self and "Other". It argues that clothing is both a boundary and not a boundary

£16.99 ISBN: 9781859739860 UK

FASHIONING THE FUTURE - TOMORROWS WARDROBE Suzanne Lee
Published: 2005
Fashioning the Future is a visionary and creative exploration of where fashion and clothing are heading, the very first guide to the 'future wardrobe' and the emergent technologies making it possible. Ten major themes embrace all kinds of clothing, from 'The Spray-On Dress' to 'The Talking T-Shirt', all accompanied by Warren du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones's distinctive images.

£19.95 ISBN: 9780500285855 UK

FASHION'S WORLD CITIES Christopher Breward/David Gilbert
Published: 2006
Examines the relationship between metropolitan modernity and fashion culture. This book looks at the significance of certain key sites in fashion's world order and at transformations in the connections between key cities. It explores the relationship between major metropolises and the production, consumption, and mythologizing of fashion.

£19.99 ISBN: 9781845204136 UK

FOLK DRESS IN EUROPE AND ANATOLIA - BELIEFS ABOUT PROTECTION AND FERTILITIY Linda Welters
Published: 1999
Relationships between dress and the body have existed in European and Anatolian folk cultures well into the 20th century. This text examines dress in a broad range of folk cultures - from Turkey, Greece and Slovakia to Norway, Latvia and Lithuania

£14.99 ISBN: 9781859732878 UK

FOOTNOTES ON SHOES Shari Benstock/Suzanne Ferriss
Published: 2001
Explores the many paradoxes inherent in shoes-in collecting, consuming, representing, and wearing them-as well as their enduring fascination

£25.50 Order Only ISBN: 9780813528717 USA

FRANKLIN ON FASHION Caryn Franklin
Published: 1996
From Afros, anorexia and African design to witches, waifs and wet look, via Naomi Campbell, John Galliano and Calvin Klein, this is an illustrated A to Z of fashion. It includes behind the scenes looks at contemporary designers and models, and accounts of past masters and mistresses of fashion. The book also provides facts about careers in modelling and fashion design, and uncovers the fictions behind beauty industry claims and marketing ploys

£9.99 Order Only ISBN: 9780044409861 UK

FUSIONABLE CHEONGSAM Wessie Ling
Published: 2007
A background of political chaos saw the emergence of thecheongsam, and the dress rise coincided with the political and social movements of Republican China, Amidst its denial by Communist China and its ignomimious adaptation, media culture, fashion production, and global circulation and consumption ensure the cheongsam's continued evolution

£18.00 Order Only ISBN: 9789627630685 HONG KONG

GARB INCL CD-ROM - A FASHION AND CULTURE READE Giuntini/Kathryn Hagen
Published: 2008
Investigates the complexity of postmodern attitudes toward dress, fashion, identity and culture through a broad range of perspectives and theoretical approaches. Diverse essays show the richness of the field, as authors from various disciplines explore the significance of fashion and fashion visual culture in the contemporary world

£33.50 USA ISBN: 9780131119109

£20.00 ISBN: 9780199210985 UK

GOTH CULTURE - GENDER, SEXUALITY AND STYLE R Dunja Brill
Published: 2008
"Goth Culture" explores Goths' expressive practices of dress, fashion, style and the body, in relation to issues of identity and representation. The book shares vivid accounts of the author's experiences exploring gender and sexuality and doing fieldwork in the Gothic subculture. Through the voices of Goths from the UK, US and Germany, it draws the reader into the gender-bending and heavily gendered world of Goth

£16.99 ISBN: 9781845207687 UK

HAIRSTYLES AND FASHION - A HAIRDRESSERS HISTORY OF PARIS 1910 - 1920 Steven Zdatny
Published: 1999
These articles were written between 1910 and 1920 by the Paris hairstylist, Emile Long, in order to keep English coiffeurs informed of trends in French fashion and hairdressing. They cover consumer habits, technology, notions of cleanliness, and changing ideals of femininity and the social order

£16.99 ORDER ONLY ISBN: 9781859732229 UK

HOLLYWOOD BEYOND THE SCREEN Anne Massey
Published: 2000
This book is about tying up loose ends, it offers a reading of visual culture that makes new links between design and film, using an approach taken from material culture studies, it also offers insights into the Americanization of British popular culture by looking at changing representations and meanings of glamour
£16.99 ISBN: 9781859733219 UK

HUMAN GAME - SPORT WHEN MOVEMENT BECAME FORM
Maria Lisa Frisa/Francesco Bonami
Published: 2006
Looks at the central role sports play in society and the influence on contemporary culture, from fashion to art, technology, economy, medicine, and communication.
£35.00 ISBN: 8881585952 ITALY

INSIDE SUBCULTURE - THE POSTMODERN MEANING OF STYLE
David Muggleton
Published: 2000
Listening to the voices of the subcultural stylists themselves, their subjective perceptions of their style and the ideas that lie behind them, the author provides original insights into issues of subjectivity and identity

£16.99 ISBN: 9781859733523 UK

IRENE BRIN - ITALIAN STYLE IN FASHION Vittoria Caterina Caratozzolo
Published:2006
Irene Brin is considered an icon of Italian fashion and culture. In 1945, she started work at "Bellezza" magazine, where she wrote articles on fashion. This title depicts Brin as an extraordinary promoter of Italian culture, and takes particular interest in her role as Rome editor for the internationally renowned "Harper's Bazaar"

£12.99 ISBN: 9788831789585 ITALY

IS FASHION A WOMAN'S RIGHT Carolyn Beckingham
Published: 2005
The author describes the historical background as applied to both men's and women's clothing in various cultures, including close reading of the function of clothes in the novels of the Bronte sisters, Thackeray and Dickens, through to the use of fashion as a call to arms for the early feminists, as well as later theorists like Susan Sontag and Naomi Wolf. Issues of personal freedom and political correctness, the claims that fashion makes women sex objects for men, and the charge that the subject is too trivial to merit serious discussion, are all challenged. Allegations of links between fashion and pornography are explored, and the disagreements between feminists on this topic set out. Finally, the issue of dressing for special occasions and whether this practice has a place in the modern world is addressed with candour. Is Fashion a Woman's Right? Re-establishes the relationship between fashion and feminist values.

£37.50 ISBN: 9781845190774 UK Order Only

JEWS AND SHOES Edna Nahshon
Published:2008
Shoes are an integral part of Jewish material culture. Although they appear in some of the most foundational biblical stories, they are generally regarded as no more than lowly, albeit essential , accessories. "Jews and Shoes" takes a fresh look at the makings and meanings of shoes, cobblers, and barefootedness in Jewish experience. This book shows how shoes convey theological, social, and economic concepts, and as such are intriguing subjects for inquiry within a wide range of cultural, artistic, and historic contexts.

£17.99 ISBN: 9781847880505 UK

LANGUAGES OF DRESS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper/ Bruce Ingham
Published: 1997
Focusing on political and religious conformity, this work considers how the languages of dress in the Middle East connect with other social practices. Treating cases as diverse as practices of veiling in Oman and dress reform laws in Turkey, these thenographic studies extend from Malta, across the Middle East, to Iran and countries of the Caucasus.

£17.50 ISBN: 9780700706716 UK

LATEX & LINGERIE - SHOPPING FOR PLEASURE AT ANN SUMMERS PARTIES
Merl Storr
Published: 2003
This book investigates what really goes on at these 'special' homosocial gatherings, where heterosexual women drink, laugh, shop, play party games and talk about sex. Storr develops a new analysis of the ways heterosexual women identify with and against each other - and of what this tells us about gender, sexuality and consumption in contemporary society.

£15.99 ISBN: 185973698X UK

LONDON - AFTER A FASHION Alistair O'Neill
Published:2007
Maps fashion's progress in a variety of London locations, including Carnaby Street, the King's Road, Jermyn Sreet and Soho. The book is a consideration of fashions particular to the history of London. The author traces the history of fashion within modern London through a lively and unexpected reconsideration of cultural figures and forms. From examples as diverse as the design-conscious use of chintz in the 1980s, the use of the hat in British Surrealism, and the popularity of tattooing in the London society of the 1890s, the book charts a broad territory

£14.95 UK ISBN: 9781861893154

MALLARME ON FASHION - A TRANSLATION OF `LA DERNIERE MODE'
P N Fairbank/A M Cain
Published: 2004
In the later months of 1874, the great French poet, Stephane Mallarme, undertook a highly idiosyncratic project - the publication of a fashion magazine (La Derniere Mode) that he almost single-handedly wrote and edited. Using a variety of feminine and masculine pseudonyms to theorize about the concept of fashion and to report and advise on women's clothing, popular vacation destinations, home furnishings and entertainment

£16.99 ISBN: 1859737234 UK

MAN APPEAL Paul Jobling
Published: 2005
This book provides a much-needed evaluation of the history of men's fashion advertising in the first half of the twentieth century. Arguably, modernism provided the most visually arresting and playful poster and press advertising campaigns ever launched. Undoubtedly one of the most fecund and complex periods in the history of menswear promotion, the period saw vast sums of money spent on advertising men's clothing by the likes of Austin Reed, the Fifty Shilling Tailors, Simpson and Barratt shoes. Replete with confident head-turners, many posters of the period featured dandies knowingly offering up their bodies for the delectation of women - an irony made doubly rich by the fact that these images were consumed almost exclusively by men.

£17.99 ISBN: 9781845200879 UK

MARKET A LA MODE - FASHION, COMMODITY AND GENDER IN `THE TATLER' AND `THE SPECTATOR' Erin Mackie
Published: 1997
This text examines the role that these two periodicals played in the growth of fashion and how they influenced their readers. It traces the commercial context in which "The Tatler" and "The Spectator" operated, focusing on the processes of commodification , fetishization, and revisions of gender identity. The study argues that fashion publications , far from being commentaries on passing fancies, assumed a leading role in defining women's legitimate sphere of activities as well as in the development of commerce as recreation

£33.00 ISBN: 0801855888 USA

MATERIAL STRATEGIES - DRESS AND GENDER IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
B Burman/C Turbin
Published: 2003
Material Strategies brings together scholars from different disciplines to explore what dress and textiles can tell us about gender history.

£24.50 ISBN: 1405109068 UK

MILAN SINCE THE MIRACLE - CITY, CULTURE AND IDENTITY John Foot
Published: 2001
Fascinating book traces Milan's biography through its buildings, design. fashion, cinema, families, immigrants and television

£14.99 ISBN: 1859735509 UK

NAZI `CHIC' ? - FASHIONING WOMEN IN THE THIRD REICH Irene Guenther
Published: 2004
This is the first book in English to deal comprehensively with German fashion from World War I through to the end of the Third Reich. It explores the failed attempt by the Nazi state to construct a female image that would mirror official gender policies, inculcate feelings of national pride, promote a German victory on the fashion runways of Europe and support a Nazi-controlled European fashion industry. Not only was fashion one of the country's largest industries throughout the inter-war period, but German women ranked among the most elegantly dressed in all of Europe

£17.99 ISBN: 9781859737170 UK

NEW RAIMENTS OF SELF - AFRICAN AMERICAN CLOTHING IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH Helen Bradley Foster
Published: 1997
Discusses such areas as: constructing cloth and clothing in the Antebellum South; wearing Antebellum clothing; having footwear; embellishing the head; crowning the person; and clothing as the weft of a folk history. The introduction to the volume is entitled "Warping a Folk History". This volume also includes appendices featuring: a glossary of selected trade-cloth terms used by Europeans; an annotated glossary of terms related to textile manufacturers and clothing taken from the "Narratives"; and cloth dyes reported in the "Narratives"

£14.99 ISBN: 1859731899 UK

NO LOGO Naomi Klein
Published: 2000
Based on hundreds of interviews, on both sides of the fence, with young activists and advertising executives, with union leaders and corporate directors, it offers a fascinating reading

£8.99 ISBN: 0006530400 UK

OLD CLOTHES, NEW LOOKS - SECOND HAND FASHION
Alexandra Palmer/Hazel Clark
Published: 2004
This provocative book shows that retro may have originated from vintage or second-hand, but has become its own style and is now integrated into the mainstream fashion system as the interest in vintage has escalated. Second-hand fashion has a history as old as the production of clothing itself, but it has not been discussed before in a focused way as an important, on-going part of fashion history , despite the fact that used clothes represent the largest numbers of worn and existing garments. This cross-cultural and historical perspective fills a major gap by offering fresh insights into the innovative use of second-hand dress and age-old traditions of recycling fashion. It will be essential reading for all those interested in fashion, consumption, material culture and design.

£16.99 ISBN: 9781859738573 UK

ORLAN - MILLENNIAL FEMALE Kate Ince
Published: 2000
Anyone working in the fields of gender, the visual arts or cultural studies will find this book and the questions it raises provocative and enlightening

£16.99 ISBN: 1859733395 UK

PANTALOONS AND POWER Gayle V Fischer
Published: 2001
Depicts how the reformers denouncement of conventional dress highlighted the role of clothing in the struggle of power relations between the sexes

£28.50 ISBN: 0873386825 USA

PARIS FASHION - A CULTURAL HISTORY Valerie Steele
Published: 1998
This text shows the strength of the French fashion industry rests on the depth and sophistication of its fashion culture. More than just a history of famous designers and changing styles, the book is about fashion as a cultural ideal and a social phenomenon. By focusing on a case study of Paris, the author provides insights into the significance of fashion in modern urban society

£17.99 ISBN: 1859739733 UK

PLAYBOYS IN PARADISE - MASCULINITY, YOUTH AND LEISURE STYLE IN MODERN AMERICA Bill Osgerby
Published: 2001
Focusing on two of the periods most visible icons, the swinging bachelor and the vibrant teenage , this book looks at the interconnected changes that took place for American youth culture and masculinity as consumption and leisure estabished themselves as the dominant features of middle class life

£14.99 ISBN: 1859734537 UK

PRODUCING FASHION - COMMERCE, CULTURE AND CONSUMERS Regina Lee
Published:2008
Blaszczyk Is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that shows how economic institutions in Europe and North America laid the foundation for the global fashion system and sustained it commercially through the mechanisms of advertising, licensing, marketing, publishing and retailing

£39.00 ISBN: 9780812240375 USA

RECONSTRUCTING ITALIAN FASHION - AMERICA AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ITALIAN FASHION INDUSTRY Nicola White
Published: 2000
This book contributes to the scant research on twentieth century Italian dress and specifically exposes for the first time the depth of American involvement in Italian fashion at a crucial phase of its development

£16.99 ISBN: 1859733417 UK

RELIGION, DRESS AND THE BODY Linda A Arthur
Published: 1999
Dress provides a window for viewing culture, because it visually attests to the salient ideas, concepts and categories fundamental to that culture. This text examines how the metaphor of appearance is used within religious groups in the USA, to express religiosity, ethnicity and gender norms

£14.99 Order Only ISBN: 9781859732977 UK

RE-ORIENTING FASHION Sandra Niessen
Published: 2003
Examines Asian fashion in a global econmic and cultural context

£17.99 ISBN: 1859735398 UK

S/HE - CHANGING SEX AND CHANGING CLOTHES Claudine Griggs
Published: 1998
Investigates the pressures and motivations to conform to expected gender roles, and the ways in which these are affected by social, educational and professional status

£14.99 ISBN: 9781859739167 UK

SEXING LA MODE - GENDER, FASHION AND COMMERCIAL CULTURE IN OLD REGIME FRANCE Jennifer M Jones
Published: 2004
The connection between fashion, femininity, frivolity and Frenchness has become a cliche. Yet, relegating fashion to the realm of frivolity and femininity is a distinctly modern belief that developed along with the urban culture of the Enlightenment. In eighteenth-century France, a commercial culture filled with shop girls, fashion magazines and window displays began to supplant a court-based fashion culture based on rank and distinction, stimulating debates over the proper relationship between women and commercial culture, public and private spheres, and morality and taste

£15.99 Order Only ISBN: 9781859738351 UK

SOLSTISS Anne Ktaatz 2007
Seduces with the story of a tradition that is centuries old, but continues to be the fabric of womens dreams

£12.95 ISBN: 9782843239489 USA

STYLIN' - AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPRESSIVE CULTURE, FROM ITS BEGINNINGS TO THE ZOOT SUIT Shane White/Graham
Published:1999
White Focusing on such variegated indicators of black style as dress, hair. body language and dance, revealing an evolving semiotics of black self-creating that has beeen designed from its very outset to impose a degree of individuality on the numbing uniformity bred of slavery, poverty, Jim Crow laws and white racism

£13.95 ISBN: 9780801482830 USA

TATTOO - AN ANTHROPOLOGY Makiko Kuwahara
Published: 2005
Because it is a permanent inscription, a tattoo makes a powerful statement about identity and culture. In this case, its resurgence is part of a vibrant cultural revival movement. Kuwahara examines the complex significance of the art, including its relationship to gender, youth culture, ethnicity and prison life. She also provides unique photographic evidence of the sophisticated techniques and varied forms that characterize French Polynesian tattooing today.

£17.99 ISBN: 1845201558 UK

£16.99 ISBN: 1859736203 UK

THE CLOTHED BODY Patrizia Calefato
Published: 2004
Dress is everywhere imbued with symbols that reflect different meanings in different contexts. This compelling book convincingly demonstrates how clothing is analogous to a working language and is similarly underpinned by deeper meanings and philosophies. From tattoos and mini-skirts, to skin decoration, make-up and hair, Calefato unpicks the multiple functions of modern dress.

£15.99 ISBN: 9781859738054 UK

THE CULTURE OF FASHION Christopher Breward
Published: 1995
This illustrated survey of 600 years of fashion investigates its cultural and social meanings from medieval Europe to 20th-century America. It provides a guide to the changes in style and taste, and challenges existing fashion histories, showing that clothes have always played a pivotal role in defining a sense of identity and society, especially when concerned with sexual and body politics.

£15.99 ISBN: 9780719041259 UK

THE CULTURE OF SEWING - GENDER, CONSUMPTION AND HOME DRESSMAKING Barbara Burman
Published: 1999
First serious account of the significance of home dressmaking as a form of European and American material culture, exploring themes from the last 200yrs to the present

£17.99 ISBN: 9781859732083 UK

THE EMPIRE OF FASHION - DRESSING MODERN DEMOCRACY
Gilles Lipovetsky
Published: 2002

£13.95 Order Only ISBN: 9780691102627 USA

THE ENGLISHNESS OF ENGLISH DRESS C Breward/B Conekin/C Cox
Published: 2002
Presenting an overview of how particular designers and consumer groups have striven to present or contest versions of Englishness through clothing from the 18th through to the 21st centuries

£15.99 ISBN: 9781859735282 UK

THE FACE OF FASHION - CULTURAL STUDIES IN FASHION Jennifer Craik
Published: 1993
This book examines fashion from the role of the supermodel in the beauty business to the significance of cosmetics, perfumes and male fashions. Clearly written and accessible it argues that it is wrong to see fashion as the expression of haute couture. Instead what is judged to be fahionable emerges from a number of different sources in society. It will be required reading for students of culture and society

£27.99 ISBN: 9780415052627 UK

THE FASHION BUSINESS - THEORY, PRACTICE, IMAGE Nicola White/Ian Griffiths
Published: 2001
This pioneering book unites theory and practice to provide an integrated series of snapshots taken from different perspectives of the fashion business in the second half of the twentieth century

£16.99 ISBN: 9781859733592 UK

THE FASHION DOLL - FROM BEBE JUMEAU TO BARBIE Juliette Peers
Published: 2004
Feminists have argued that the Barbie doll perpetuates unrealistic standards of feminine beauty and undermines the credibility of women - that her long, slender plastic limbs and tiny waist fetishize the female body in unnatural ways and that her mature, overtly fashionable image promotes consumerism and superficiality over and above women's liberty and intellect. Depending on the viewer, Barbie is either a malign symbol of the strategies of the capitalist system or she is a symbol of glamour, high fashion and style, a fascinating indice of cultural change and nostalgic memory.

£15.99 Order Only ISBN: 1859737439 UK

THE FASHION OF ARCHITECTURE Bradley Quinn
Published: 2003
The first attempt to explore the contemporary relationship between fashion and architecture , Quinn's book shows the congruity of ideas, techniques, materials, and concepts between the two fields of design that underpins urban space, physical structures, and popular fashion imagery.

£19.99 ISBN: 9781859737576 UK

THE FASHION READER
Linda Welters/Abbey Lillethun
Published: 2007
Designed for students, scholars, and those interested in contemporary fashion. This book brings together the key writings on the subject, covering the history, culture, and business of fashion. The extracts are drawn from a range of sources - books, professional and academic journals, magazines, interviews and exhibition catalogues

£19.99 ISBN: 9781845204860 UK

THE FASHION SYSTEM Roland Barthes
Published: 1983
Develops a much more elaborate analytical apparatus, then sets it loose on what Barthes calls `the written garment' the language of fashion magazines

£17.50 ISBN: 9780520071773 USA

THE FASHIONED BODY Joanne Entwistle
Published: 2000
Will be an invaluable resource for students and academics interested in the social role of fashion and dress in modern culture and will also be of unterest to students and researchers in the areas of consumption, cultural studies, gender studies and feminist theory

£19.50 UK ISBN: 9780745620077

THE FEMININE IDEAL Marianne Thesander
Published: 1997
Presenting fashion history from a feminist viewpoint, this book examines the female body, female beauty and female culture. It discusses icons such as Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, Joan Collins and Madonna, as well as fashion designers such as Jean Paul Gaultier and Calvin Klein

£19.95 ISBN: 9781861890047 UK

THE GLOBAL CIRCULATION OF AFRICAN FASHION Lesie W Rabine
Published: 2002
Traces the changing meanings, aesthetics and histories of the thriving informal African fashion network through its multi-cultural cross-roads of Los Angeles, Kenya and Senegal, Rabine explores the interrelationship and tensions that exist between these popular and mass cultures, including the ways that global circulation threatens to destroy artisanal skills.

£14.99 ISBN: 9781859735985 UK

THE IDEAL WOMAN
Published: 2004
Poses the question what exactly is the function of the woman as a role model in contemporary fashion

£16.50 ISBN: 9789058751362 NETHERLANDS

£14.95 ISBN: 9781861891532 UK

THE JAPANESE REVOLUTION IN PARIS FASHION Yuniya Kawamura
Published: 2004
Despite recent challenges from New York, London and Milan, Paris is renowned as the greatest fashion capital in the world. Its distinctive categorization of haute couture, demi-couture, and pret-a-porter reflect a highly structured and tightly controlled system that non-western designers have had difficulty penetrating. Yet a number of the most influential Japanese designers have broken into this scene and made a major impact. How? Paris couturiers and designers operate a gate-keeping system that is not only exclusive and rigorous but highly demanding.

£16.99 ISBN: 9781859738153 UK

THE LANGUAGE OF FASHION Roland Barthes
Published: 2006
Roland Barthes, widely regarded as one of the most perceptive critics of the twentieth century , was particularly fascinated by fashion and clothing. This collection brings together all of Barthes' untranslated writings on fashion, revealing the breadth and insight of Barthes' long engagement with the history of clothes. The essays range from an analysis of the significance of gemstones and jewelry, to an exploration of Courreges and Chanel, to a discussion of of hippy style in Morocco, and the role of color in fashion.

£10.00 ISBN: 1845203801 UK

THE LATIN AMERICAN FASHION READER Regina A Root
Published: 2005
The book also considers fashion icons such as Frida Kahlo and Eva Peron - women who have been worshipped and transformed into marketable symbols of exoticism and passion - as well as the key role that dress played in their rise to celebrity. Providing a first and definitive overview of Latin American fashion, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in Latin American cultural studies or fashion history.

£17.99 ISBN: 9781859738931 UK

THE MEANINGS OF DRESS (Second Edition) M L Damhorst/K A Miller/S O Michelman
Published: 1999
How do dress and the body relate to work, sports, rituals and celebrations?. How do they influence sexual attraction, intimate relationships, fantasy, play and aging? These articles expand our awareness and understanding of dress

£40.00 ISBN: 1563673665 USA

THE MEN'S FASHION READER Peter McNeil/Vicki Karaminas
Published: 2009
"The Men's Fashion Reader" brings together key writings in the history, culture and identity of men's fashion. The readings provide a balanced range of important methodological approaches, primary research and significant case studies. The book is organized into thematic sections covering topics such as history, theory, subculture, iconic items of clothing, consumption and the media.

£22.99 ISBN: 9781845207878 UK

THE NATIONAL FABRIC - BRITAIN, BRITISHNESS AND BRITISH FASHION
Alison Goodrum
Published: 2005
The National Fabric provides telling insights into the culture of contemporary fashion and the dilemmas of 'going global'. Goodrum argues that 'Britishness' is characterized less through a particular look than through its ambiguities. She shows how the apparently straightforward and economically-driven process of globalizing British fashion is, in fact, far more culturally nuanced and locally embedded than has previously been suggested. In examining the interplay between fashion and Britishness, Goodrum redresses a longstanding omission in fashion theory, which has been preoccupied with class, gender and race than with national identity.

£17.99 ISBN: 9781845201876 UK

THE PIMLICO COMPANION TO FASHION Colin McDowell
Published: 1998
From Ovid to Malcolm X, and Virginia Woolf to Milan Kundera, dress has stimulated comments at various levels. Using letters, journals and memoirs, as well as novels, poetry and plays, this book covers over 400 years of writing about dress, including European, Irish, and American literature

£14.99 ISBN: 9780712666091 UK

THE POLITICS OF APPEARANCES Richard Wrigley
Published: 2002
In the turbulent political and social landscape of Revolutionary France, dress played a major role in defining and displaying new identities. What people wore was, in fact, a vital symbol of their allegiances and beliefs. Drawing on a wide range of documentary and visual sources, this book offers a vivid picture of the highly charged politics of Revolutionary appearances

£16.95 ISBN: 9781859735091 UK

THE POWER OF FASHION - ABOUT DESIGN AND MEANING
Published: 2006
Using word and image, this book explains how fashion is interwoven into every facet of society, and also illustrates what influences fashion and what it has to offer.

£29.50 ISBN: 9789058975119

THE RISE OF FASHION - A READER Daniel Leonhard Purdy
Published: 2004
For more than 250 years, social thinkers have considered fashion--its transitive nature, the conformity it inspires, the vast range of its influence--as a defining feature of modern life. In "The Rise of Fashion, Daniel Leonhard Purdy brings together key writings from the Enlightenment to the twentieth century that explore fashion as the ultimate expression of modernity. Making available many previously untranslated or otherwise unfamiliar works from French, German, and English, Purdy establishes an extraordinary lineage of fashion commentary dating back to Mandeville and Voltaire, which laid the groundwork for the writings on commodity culture of Adorno, Benjamin, and the Frankfurt School.

£19.00 ISBN: 9780816643936 USA

THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF CLOTHING Susan B Kaiser
Published: 1997
Examines fashion in terms of gender, ethnicity, sexuality and social class, offering a more broad based and inclusive vision of the social psychology of clothing

£29.00 ISBN: 9781563671074 USA

THE STUDY OF DRESS HISTORY Lou Taylor
Published: 2002
Outlines the full range of current academic approaches to dress history, from object-centred research to study based on oral sources and the use of literature, photographs and film

£17.99 ISBN: 9780719040658 UK

THE SUBCULTURES READER (2nd Edition) Ken Gelder
Published: 2005
Revised and update completely to include new research and theories, this second edition of a hugely successful book brings together a range of articles, from big names in the field, classic texts and new thinking on subcultures and their definitions.

£21.99 Order Only ISBN: 0415344166 UK

THE TEXTILE BOOK Colin Gale/Jasbir Kaur
Published: 2002
Takes us behind the scenes with professionals to revel what various jobs invlove, what influences decision makers and how their decisions affect what we buy, what happens to clothes before they reach the shops, plus many more topics

£16.99 ISBN: 9781859735121 UK

THE VISIBLE SELF J B Eicher/S L Evenson/H A Lutz
Published: 2000
Using Western and non-Western examples, the book fosters an appreciation of the diversity of dress through an exploration of the common purposes served by dress to protect, satisft and communicate, and analyzes the act of dressing, not simply putting on clothing, but cleansing the body and adorning it

£40.00 ISBN: 9781563670688 USA

THEATRE AND FASHION Joel H Kaplan/Sheila Stowell
Published: 1995
First book to explore the complex relationship between theatre, fashion and society in the late Victorian and early modern era

£23.50 ISBN: 9780521499507 UK

THROUGH THE WARDROBE - WOMENS RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEIR CLOTHES Ali Guy/Eileen
Published: 2001
Green/Maura Banim Fills a gap in the existing literature on the ambivalence of fashion and dress by drawing on a wide range of womens experiences with their wardrobes and providing empirical data noticeably absent from other studies of women and dress

£16.99 ISBN: 9781859733882 UK

TIGERSPRUNG - FASHION IN MODERNITY Ulrich Lehmann
Published: 2001
Explores the interplay between philosophical ideas and fashion, reading texts and textiles, discourse and dresses, to investigate modernity from a variety of perspectives, artistic, philosophical, sociological and historical

£21.00 ISBN: 9780262621717 USA

TRADE SECRETS - YOUNG BRITISH TALENTS TALK BUSINESS Cynthia Rose
Published: 1999
For young British talent, the 1990s have been explosive. From rave culture to the pages of young magazines, British style and attitude leads the world. Where did all this energy come from, and why is it happening now? How did the visionaries of the day get to where they are now? This book lets a range of young talents tell you

£18.95 Order Only ISBN: 9780500280836 UK

TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN FASHION Linda Welters/Patricia Cunningham
Published: 2005
It examines such influences on dress as class, jazz and hip hop , war, the space race, movies, television and sports. Further, the book shows how gender, psychology, advertising, public policy, shifting family values, the American design movement and expertise in mass production profoundly influenced an American style that has been exported across the globe. From New York City's Bohemians to Hollywood's stars, Twentieth-Century American Fashion reveals the continuing importance of clothing to American identity and individual experience.

£16.99 ISBN: 9781845200732 UK

UNDERSTANDING FASHION HISTORY Valerie Cumming
Published: 2004
A much-needed overview of aspects of fashion history and how to understand it with clear, jargon-free text to help all lay readers, collectors, as well as students of fashion history. The author is a leading authority on fashion history with experience as a writer, teacher and curator . throughout with plates, photographs, paintings and drawings, the book is divided up into the following chapters: What is dress, and how and why is it studied? Theories of dress and fashion and how they have evolved; Collections of dress and textiles and their importance as a source of information about social and technological change; Dress in art and dress as art; Dress as an indicator of role and status; Dress and cultural imperialism: absorption of non-Western ideas in fabric and the imposition of Western dress in preference to indigenous styles.

£16.99 ISBN: 9780713488753 UK

UNDRESSING CINEMA Stella Bruzzi
Published: 1997
From Audrey Hepburn in Givenchy, to sharp suited gangsters in Tarantino movies, clothing is central to film. Clothes are not mere accessories, but are key elements in the construction of cinematic identities. Focusing on the narrative significance of clothes in film, this text proposes new and synamic links between cinema, fashion and costume history, gender, queer theory and psychoanalysis

£18.99 ISBN: 9780415139571 UK

UNDRESSING RELIGION - COMMITMENT AND CONVERSION FROM A CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE Linda B Arthur
Published: 2000
Investigates how dress symbolically evidences both religious and social systems across a wide range of cultures

£14.99 Order Only ISBN: 9781859734803 UK

UNIFORMS EXPOSED Jennifer Craik
Published: 2005
Uniforms Exposed thoroughly investigates the social and cultural significance of these ordinary yet extraordinary garments. Craik demonstrates how uniforms go well beyond the standard definitions of order, discipline, conformity, pride and authority. Their meaning, she argues, is thoroughly context-dependent. Uniforms Exposed considers virtually every aspect and type of uniform , from school uniforms, which may equally promote conformity or subversion depending on context, through to fetish wear. Craik's conclusion: uniforms are not simply clothing - they are potent symbols. In short, there is really nothing 'uniform' about wearing a uniform.

£16.99 Order Only ISBN: 9781859738047 UK

UNRAVELLING THE RAG TRADE - IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN SEVEN WORLD CITIES Jan Rath
Published: 2002
Focusing on the garment industry in seven world cities - Paris, Miami, London, Birmingham, Amsterdam, New York and Los Angeles - this book tackles the complex relationship between the development of immigrant entrepreneurship and the shift to global, post-industrial urban economies

£15.99 ISBN: 9781859734230 UK

VEIL - MODESTY. PRIVACY AND RESISTANCE Fadwa El Guindi
Published: 2000
Draws on extensive original fieldwork, anthropology, history and original Islamic sources to challenge the simplistic assumption that veiling is largely about modesty and seclusion, honor and shame

£17.99 Order Only ISBN: 9781859739297 UK

WEARING IDEOLOGY - STATE, SCHOOLING AND SELF-PRESENTATION IN JAPAN Brian J McVeigh
Published: 2000
Examines what the donning of uniforms says about cultural psychology and the expression of economic nationalism in Japan

£14.99 Order Only ISBN: 9781859734902 UK

WOMEN WHO BECOME MEN - ALBANIAN SWORN VIRGINS Antonia Young
Published: 2000
Fascinating exploration of male and female social roles, and the ways in which cross-gendering can be a response to particular social or demographic pressures
£14.99 ISBN: 9781859733400 UK