The Study of Dress History by Lou Taylor

The Study of Dress History by Lou Taylor

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Over the past ten years the study of dress history has achieved academic respectability. This book shows how the fields of dress history and dress studies are now benefitting from the adoption of new multi-disciplinary approaches and outlines the full range of these approaches which draw on material culture, ethnography, and cultural studies.

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The Study of Dress History by Lou Taylor

Over the past ten years the study of dress history has finally achieved academic respectability. This book shows how the fields of dress history and dress studies are now benefitting from the adoption of new multi-disciplinary approaches and outlines the full range of these approaches which draw on material culture, ethnography, and cultural studies. Raises a series of frank and fresh issues surrounding approaches to the history of dress, including analysis of the academic gender and subject divides that have riven it in the past. Comprehensive, engaging and trenchant, this will become the benchmark volume in the study of dress history.
Lou Taylor is Professor of Dress and Textile History at the University of Brighton and author of Mourning Dress: a costume and social history (1983) and, with Elizabeth Wilson, Through the looking glass (1989)
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ISBN 13 9780719040658
ISBN 10 0719040655
Title The Study of Dress History
Author Lou Taylor
Series Studies In Design And Material Culture
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Manchester University Press
Year published 2002-02-21
Number of pages 296
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