History of Fashion

How did ordinary men and women dress in early modern Europe? What fabrics and garments formed the essential elements of fashion for artisans and sh...

Winner of the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2022 Traditionally associated with rural ways of life in England, often hand...

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...

This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides novel insights into the city of Rome during one of ...

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

This seminal text demystifies the terminology of working in the fashion industry today, providing definitions of processes, techniques, features, a...

Explores some of the dynamic, forward-facing artistic creations of Indigenous FuturismThe growing field of Indigenous Futurism eludes easy categori...

During the interwar years, a proliferation of violence encroached upon the glossy, idealistic world of fashion: from the curiously common appearanc...

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 fashion model's hold on popular consciousness is undeniable. How did models emerge as such powerful icons in modern consumer culture? This vol...

An impeccably researched and beautifully produced concise history of bags through the ages, with examples drawn from the Victoria and Albert Museum...

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...