Fashion & Society

Through 100 groundbreaking dresses, The Dress traces the past and present influences and reinterpretations in clothing design. From the Victorian c...

A turban is a strip of cloth folded and wrapped around the head; however, this description includes multifarious forms across space and time. T...

How do fashions in drinks work, and how are drinks fashions related to changing trends in clothes and apparel? These twin questions are posed and a...

In the period 1450 to 1650 in Europe, hair was braided, curled, shaped, cut, colored, covered, decorated, supplemented, removed, and reused in magi...

Hair, or lack of it, is one the most significant identifiers of individuals in any society. In Antiquity, the power of hair to send a series of soc...

Over the last century, there has been a revolution in self-presentation and social attitudes towards hair. Developments in mass manufacturing, adva...

The Enlightenment (1650-1800) was the Golden Age of hair. Hair dominated fashion as never before or since, with more men and women than ever donnin...

The Middle Ages were a time of great innovation, artistic vigor, and cultural richness. Appearances mattered a great deal during this vibrant era a...

19th and early 20th-century hair appears to be everywhere when you start to look, from the abundant locks of the pre-Raphaelites to the myriad obje...

Indonesian fashion has undergone a period of rapid growth over the last three decades. This book explores how through years of social, political, a...

From sweatshops to fur farming, from polluting chemicals to painful garments, the fashion industry is associated with activities which have had dev...

Taking cultural theorist Michel de Certeaus notion of the everyday as a critical starting point, this book considers how fashion shapes and is shap...

The Late Middle Ages (c.1350 - 1500) provides us with many of our stock, childhood images of the 'Middle Ages': the knight in shining armour, the j...