Research Catalog

Title

Dress history : new directions in theory and practice / edited by Charlotte Nicklas and Annebella Pollen.

Publication

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

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Additional Authors

• Nicklas, Charlotte
• Pollen, Annebella

Description

xvii, 215 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The field of dress history has experienced exponential growth over the past two decades. This in-depth investigation examines the expanding borders and porous boundaries of the discipline today, outlining key debates and showcasing the most exciting research. With international case studies from a wide range of scholars, the volume encompasses work from a variety of historical periods from the late 18th century to the present day. Thematically structured, contributors examine, critique and expand the methodologies and sources used in fashion history, analyse how dress is collected, displayed and sold, and investigate clothing's meanings and uses in the practice of identity. Exploring overlooked territories and new approaches to analysis, the book offers students and scholars a fresh appraisal of dress history in the 21st century"--

Subjects

• Clothing and dress > Social aspects
• Clothing and dress > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Dress history now : terms, themes and tools -- Dress thinking : disciplines and indisciplinarity -- 'Gloves of the very thin sort' : gifting Limerick gloves in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century -- All out in the wash : convict stain removal in the Narryna Heritage Museum's dress collection -- Traje de crioula : representing nineteenth-century Afro-Brazilian dress -- The empress's old clothes : biographies of African dress at the Victoria and Albert Museum -- Picturing the material/manifesting the visual : aesthetic dress in late-nineteenth-century British culture -- Dress, self-fashioning and display at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum -- 'At once classical and modern' : Raymond Duncan dress and textiles in the Royal Ontario Museum -- An 'unexpected pearl' : gender and performativity in the public and private lives of London couturier Norman Hartnell -- From Kays of Worcester to Vogue, Paris : the Women's Institute magazine, rural life and fashionable dress in post-war Britain -- Radical shoemaking and dress reform from Fabians to feminists -- Dress and textiles in transition : the sungudi sari revival of Tamilnadu, India.

Call Number

JQE 16-211

ISBN

• 9780857855411
• 0857855417
• 9780857856401
• 0857856405
• 9781474240512 (ePDF) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781474240529 (ePub) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015009451

OCLC

897016293

Title

Dress history : new directions in theory and practice / edited by Charlotte Nicklas and Annebella Pollen.

Publisher

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Nicklas, Charlotte, editor.

Pollen, Annebella, editor.

Research Call Number

JQE 16-211