Fashion & Society

The human body lies at the centre of our relationship to fashion and textiles. Crafting Anatomies explores how the body has become a catalyst for a...

East Asia covers an area that is home to a quarter of the world's population. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the region, follow...

Since the mid-20th century fashion has undergone phenomenal change at a rapid pace in the context of unprecedented social, political and cultural u...

Covering an area of spectacularly diverse topography and climate, from arid Mexican deserts to tropical islands and from Amazonian rainforests to...

From the Baltic to the Balkans, and from Siberia to the Caucasus, the lands covered in this volume contain a multitude of cultures with rich and ...

Collectively, the Pacific Islands, Australia and New Zealand represent a varied and culturally complex region. It is home to peoples leading time...

Dress and Identity in America is an examination of the conservatism and materialism that swept across the country in the late 1940s through the 195...

Ordinary clothes have extraordinary stories. In contrast to academic and curatorial focus on the spectacular and the luxurious, Everyday Fashion ma...

Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021 Beautifully written, entirely accessible, poignant and profound ...

Discover Scotland with this authoritative guide to clans, tartans, and their origins. These popular maps are highly detailed, showing hun...

Historical Style connects the birth of eighteenth-century British consumer society to the rise of historical self-consciousness. Prior to the eight...

White T-shirt, Miniskirt, Hoodie, Jeans, Ballet flat, Breton top, Biker jacket, Little black dress, Stiletto, Trench. What are you wearing? In all ...

The Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons is undoubtedly one of the worlds major fashion designers. In 2017 she was the secon...

This is your invitation to the front row. Spanning over seven decades and 300 shows, this beautiful book tells the story of the high fashion catwal...

Cosplay, short for costume play, has grown from its origins at fan conventions into a billion-dollar global dress phenomenon. Costuming Cosplay tak...

Shirts, Shifts and Sheets of Fine Linen explores how the jobs of the seamstress evolved in scope, and status, between 1600-1900. In the 17th and e...

Riot grrrls, punk feminists best known for their girl power activism and message, used punk ideologies and the literacy practice of zine-ing to cre...

A vital sourcebook for information on clothing and textiles in the middle ages, containing many previously unprinted documents. Texts (with modern...

Splendid . . . the major overview of Anglo-Saxon clothing and textile from the 5th to 11th centuries. . . . Owen-Crocker has become the authority r...

New view of the crucial role of fashion discourse and practice in Weimar Germany and its significance for women. In the Weimar Republic, fashion w...

Shows how cinematic treatments of fashion during times of crisis offer subtle reflections on the everyday lives, desires, careers, and self-percept...