Title	Dress history : new directions in theory and practice / edited by Charlotte Nicklas and Annebella Pollen
Imprint	London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015
Descript	xvii, 215 pages ; 24 cm

"The field of dress history has experienced exponential growth over the past two decades. This in-depth investigation examines the expanding borders and porous boundaries of the discipline today, outlining key debates and showcasing the most exciting research. With international case studies from a wide range of scholars, the volume encompasses work from a variety of historical periods from the late 18th century to the present day. Thematically structured, contributors examine, critique and expand the methodologies and sources used in fashion history, analyse how dress is collected, displayed and sold, and investigate clothing's meanings and uses in the practice of identity. Exploring overlooked territories and new approaches to analysis, the book offers students and scholars a fresh appraisal of dress history in the 21st century"-- Provided by publisher

Introduction: Dress history now: terms: terms, themes and tools -- Dress thinking: disciplines and indisciplinarity -- Gloves 'of the very thin sort': gloves in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- All out in the wash: convict stain removal in the narryna heritage museum's dress collection -- Traje de crioula: representing nineteenty-century afrp-brazilian dress -- The empress's old clothes: biographies of African dress at the victoria and albert museum -- Picturing the material/manifesting the visual: aedthetic dress in late-nineteenth-century british culture -- Dress, self-fashioning and display at the isabella stewart gardner museum -- 'At once classical and modern': raymond duncan dress and textiles in the royal ontario museum -- An 'unexpected pearl': gender and performativity in the public and private lives of London couturier norman hartnell -- From kays of worcester to vogue, Paris: the women's insitute magazine, rural life and fashionable dress in post-war Britain -- Radical shoemaking and dress reform from Fabians to feminists -- Dress and textiles in transition: the Sungudi Sari revival of Tamilnadu, India

1. Clothing and dress -- History
2. Clothing and dress -- Social aspects
3. History. (OCoLC)fst01411628

LOCATION	CALL#	STATUS
Communication Arts Library	391.09 D773 2015	CHECK SHELVES