History of Fashion

What's a djibbah, how long has the old school tie been around and do yellow petticoats really repel vermin? How have social and educational changes...

Textiles and clothing are interwoven with Islamic culture. In Islamicate Textiles, readers are taken on a journey from Central Asia to Tanzania to ...

Everything around us is designed and the word 'design' has become part of our everyday experience. But how much do we know about it? Fifty Bags Tha...

Dressy men as a type of celebrity have played a distinctive part in the cultural and even in the political life of Britain over several centuries...

In more than 2,000 issues, British Vogue magazine has acted as a cultural barometer, putting fashion in the context of the larger world in whic...

This major volume aims to re-colour the European world of dress, c.1300-1800. New dyes created one of the most important visual experiences of the ...

An original contribution to fashion studies, Fashion in American Life challenges existing approaches to fashion in America by considering who makes...

An original contribution to fashion studies, Fashion in American Life challenges existing approaches to fashion in America by considering who makes...

In everyone s closet, there is one article of clothing that truly demonstrates a momentary lapse in fashion judgment. I Actually Wore This is the f...

The Polo shirt is to Ralph Lauren what Mickey Mouse is to Disney or the Empire State Building is to New York City. Whether worn with the collar pop...

A glittering official history of British Vogue, telling the magazine's story from the first issue in 1916 right up to the present day, written with...

A stunning collection of behind-the-scenes hair, makeup, and wardrobe continuity photographs taken before the cameras rolled on many of Hollywoods ...

This deluxe book showcases the unique costumes of the Star Trek saga, taking in fifty years of iconic and hugely influential designs. Drawing on th...

This book examines a group of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century figural silks depicting legendary lovers from the Khamsa (Quintet) of epic Persian...

The London-based Ready, Steady, Go! began broadcasting in August of 1963 and, within a matter of weeks, became an essential television ritual for t...

Riffling through the wardrobes of years gone by, costume historian Lucy Adlington reveals the rich stories underlying the clothes we wear in this s...

Featuring over 25 swimming costumes, two-piece garments and bikinis from 1880 to 1970, these fabulous and historically accurate patterns chart the ...

An essential sourcebook of prints from a key fashion decade. The 1950s was the decade when an analytical approach to design, with a lightness and f...

Memories of clothing feature prominently in auto/biographies, yet traditionally they have not been subjected to the same level of academic scrutiny...

A stunning and comprehensive look at the indelible contribution of Black designers, models, scene-makers, and stylists to fashion history, from the...

For 125 years, the Museum of Decorative Arts (Kunstgewerbemuseum) at Dresdens Pillnitz Palace has been home to a treasure trove of Japanese craftsm...

Through object-based case studies of garments from the ancient past through to the 21st century, Margaret Maynard reveals the countless ways the te...

This volume looks at how the issues of textiles and gender intertwine across three millennia in antiquity and examines continuities and differences...

The childlike character of ideal femininity has long been critiqued by feminists, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Simone de Beauvoir. Yet, women contin...

Global fashion markets, particularly those aimed at prosperous millennial consumers in China, are in thrall to Burberry, and connect the companys o...

Whiz Limited is a Japanese streetwear brand established in 2000 by Hiroaki Shitano. With a following in Japan as well as Hong Kong and mainland Chi...

In the 19th century, chemists introduced hundreds of new textile dyes that dramatically changed the palette of womens fashion. Color, Science, and ...

In American Fashion is the first scholarly analysis of the Fashion Calendar, the unique scheduling service and trade publication for the American f...

A fascinating history of Irishmen, woven through the clothes they wear. Taking the clothes they wore as a starting point, Paul Galvin skilfully we...

From insidious murder weapons to blaze-igniting crinolines, clothing has been the cause of death, disease and madness throughout history, by accide...

The first book to consider the subject, Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70 seeks to revise the notion that wholesale couturiers were sim...

'Magnificent ... Dressed for War works on many levels: as an evocation of an uncommon time; as a celebration of an uncommon woman; as pure, unalloy...

Fashion branding is more than just advertising. It helps to encourage the purchase and repurchase of consumer goods from the same company. While hi...

Aside from the occasional nod to epaulettes or use of camouflage, war and fashion seem to be strange partners. Not so, argue the contributors to th...