Fashion & Society

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

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...

Foundations of Flat Patterning and Draping: For the Female Form provides the foundational tools necessary for success in the techniques of flat pat...

From Margaret of Anjou to Katherine Parr, All the Queens Jewels examines the jewellery collections of the ten queen consorts of England between 144...

Shoes are everyday objects but they are loaded with meaning. This book reveals how shoes played a powerful role in the wider story of shifts in...

Shoes are everyday objects but they are loaded with meaning. This book reveals how shoes played a powerful role in the wider story of shifts in...

Dressed to Swill contains sixty original cocktail recipes inspired by style icons from the 20th century to today, including fashion designers, mode...

Visual Typologies from the Early Modern to the Contemporary investigates the pictorial representation of types from the sixteenth to the twenty- fi...

The Mongol period (1206-1368) marked a major turning point of exchange culturally, politically, and artistically across Eurasia.The wide-ranging ...

From the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s through antiapartheid activism in the 1980s and beyond, black women have used their clothing...

As Deirdre Clemente shows in this lively history of fashion on American college campuses, whether it's jeans and sneakers or khakis with a polo shi...

Early American Childrens Clothing and Textiles: Clothing a Child 16001800 explores the life experiences of Indigenous, Anglo-European, African, and...

This book offers approaches to the study of Byzantine dress of elites and non-elites, in sacred and secular modes, from the beginning of the Empire...

This book offers approaches to the study of Byzantine dress of elites and non-elites, in sacred and secular modes, from the beginning of the Empire...

Fashion is the very symbol of taste, uniqueness and personality. For the time being, fashion industry is so prosperous that there are countless fas...

18th Century Male Tailoring: Theatrical and Historical Tailoring c16801790 introduces the reader to English eighteenth century tailoring and covers...

Mexican American women have endured several layers of discrimination deriving from a strong patriarchal tradition and a difficult socioeconomic and...

What happens to punks, clubbers, goths, riot grrls, soulies, break-dancers and queer scene participants as they become older? For decades, research...

This book interrogates the hyper-visibility and stubborn endurance of the wedding spectacle across media and culture in the current climate.The wid...

The Mongol period (1206-1368) marked a major turning point of exchange culturally, politically, and artistically across Eurasia. The wide-ranging...

Often described as the hottest retail phenomenon, ephemeral retail concerns the growth of pop-up stores as a new mode of retailing. These temporary...

Entrepreneurial Cosplay takes a comprehensive and insightful look at the business of cosplay, exploring the ways that artists and fans engage in en...

Features work by an impressive list of international female designers. Besides the internationally famous names, it also considers the women behind...

- An essential reference for students, curators and scholars of fashion, cultural studies, and the expanding range of disciplines that see fashion ...

Ever wonder why so many stars and featured players, male or female, in movies of Hollywoods Golden Age look like they just stepped out of a beauty ...

How is fashion linked to our identity? How are we influenced to buy into fashion trends? How can we make the fashion industry more ethical and sust...

How is fashion linked to our identity? How are we influenced to buy into fashion trends? How can we make the fashion industry more ethical and sust...