Fashion and textile design Books
BIS Publishers B.V. Never Leave the House Naked: And 50 Other
Book SynopsisA list of inspirational/delusional fashion jargon for the world to judge.
£999.99
Roli Books Tarun Tahiliani Journey to India Modern
Book SynopsisBorn in Bombay, Tarun Tahiliani, a Wharton School of Business MBA graduate, co-founded Ensemble with his wife Sailaja in 1987, pioneering luxury fashion retail in India. After studying at FIT, New York, and gaining international acclaim, he founded the Tarun Tahiliani Design Studio in Delhi in 1995, and played a vital role in founding the Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI) in 1999, leading to India's own Fashion Week. In 2003, he became the first Indian designer at Milan Fashion Week. Beyond fashion, he has ventured into architecture and interior design, evident in his stores nationwide. Alia Allana is an investigative journalist at Object, a narrative journalism magazine. As a crime reporter, she has reported from prisons, and covered conflicts across the globe. While her entry into fashion writing began as a cub reporter, it crystalized into a deeper enquiry on attire through a study of Tarun Tahiliani's famed dhoti-sari. Since then, she has explored the ch
£48.75
Lannoo Publishers Kris Van Assche: 55 Collections: KRISVANASSCHE,
Book Synopsis"...enriched not only by an introduction by the fashion author Anders Christian Madsen, but also by countless anecdotes and stories from friends, artists and collaborators who contributed to the achievement of Van Assche's great successes." — GQ Italia "Squeezing two small decades worth of era-defining elegance into one book is no small feat. Just ask Kris Van Assche, who has spent the past year scrupulously archiving his life's work." — i-D "Fashion is my life. I see many ways to return", the Belgian creative, former head of Dior homme and Berluti, tells MFF. Who this evening in Paris presents the volume 55 collections, which retraces almost 20 years of his career" — Milano Finaza & M le Monde "How Kris van Assche helped invent the modern man." — The Face Press Embracing 20 years in fashion as a designer and Creative Director at Dior Homme, Berluti and his namesake label, Kris Van Assche reflects on his output: 55 collections, manifold collaborations with renowned artists and a constant oeuvre that conveys his identity. Designed by the illustrious art directors M/M (Paris), Kris Van Assche: 55 Collections is a visual compendium, gathered in a complete chronology.Trade Review"From his namesake label's debut, to his tenures at Dior and Berluti, '55 Collections' canvasses the Belgian designer's sensational career." - Document Journal"The Belgian designer lifts the veil on his personal life, and the enduring influences on his "Belgian realism.'" - WWD"...enriched not only by an introduction by the fashion author Anders Christian Madsen, but also by countless anecdotes and stories from friends, artists and collaborators who contributed to the achievement of Van Assche's great successes." - GQ Italia"Squeezing two small decades worth of era-defining elegance into one book is no small feat. Just ask Kris Van Assche, who has spent the past year scrupulously archiving his life's work." - i-D"Fashion is my life. I see many ways to return", the Belgian creative, former head of Dior homme and Berluti, tells MFF. Who this evening in Paris presents the volume 55 collections, which retraces almost 20 years of his career" - Milano Finaza & M le Monde"The brand has left countless classic looks in the field of men's clothing design." - Modern Weekly China"In his new book, titled straightforwardly Kris van Assche: 55 collections, the Belgian creator presents a rich archive of his work across his namesake label and his tenures as a creative director for heritage houses of Dior Homme and Berluti." - Behind the Blinds"How Kris van Assche helped invent the modern man." - The Face Press"Belgian designer Van Assche in his first monograph, which showcases 55 of his collections for Dior, Berluti, and his own label." - Financial Times"Kris Van Assche has always had a strong sense of knowing his design language." - Perfect Magazine"The most important moments in the career of Belgian designer Kris Van Assche are collected in his first monographic book." - L'Officiel Italy"A coffee table book traces the career of the Belgian designer, from Dior Homme to Berluti. We interviewed him, and during the dialogue started by an esthete grandmother…" - D la Repubblica Magazine"From the outset, it's evident that "55 Collections" is more than a mere retrospective—it's a testament to Van Assche's influence on the fashion landscape." - Esquire Singapore"The resulting tome, Kris Van Assche: 55 Collections, is not just a magnificent retrospective of the designer’s contribution to fashion, but an open “creative psychoanalysis” as he ventures down memory lane." - Another Magazine"The visual compendium, crafted by illustrious art directors M/M (Paris), chronicles 55 collections and collaborations, with his unique perspective on and off the runway." - Robb Report Singapore"Fashion designer Kris Van Assche has remarkable career and collaboration with brands Dior and Berlutti. His experiences are summarized in a new book." - Vogue Czechoslovakia"From Dior Homme to Berluti via his brand KVA, the designer has reinvented masculinity." - Le Point"In the upcoming book "Kris Van Assche 55 collections", Van Assche...invites readers to review with himself those precious moments when he devoted himself to fashion and art." - Vogue China"For the first time in his life, Kris Van Assche immersed himself in his archives, opened each box, explored each hard drive, leafed through each magazine or catalog in which his creations appear. What emerges is a chronological work of more than 400 pages where texts from friends and collaborators of the Belgian designer intersect, alongside photographs of fashion shows, campaigns and even photoshoots with Beyoncé, Lady Gaga and even the artist Cindy Sherman." - Numéro"A testimony of the evolution of fashion male for twenty years." - Le Figaro"Kris Van Assche: meet the Fashion Designer ahead of his time." - Vogue Arabia
£67.15
Fashionary International Limited Peter Jensen X Fashionary Polka Bee Ruled
Book SynopsisLondon fashion week designer Peter Jensen has designed an exclusive silk-screened polka bee cover for a limited run of ruled Fashionary notebooks, including a PJ Rabbit bookmark. His playful and stylish designs elevate these notebooks from fashion resource to fashion must-have.
£16.24
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Fashion Industry and Its Careers
Book SynopsisExplore different fields in the fashion industry-- ranging from marketing and social media to academia and museum work-- to discover more than 75 unique careers. Using the expertise of industry professionals in design, retail, production, and more; The Fashion Industry and Its Careers, Fifth Edition explores what to expect on the job, required education and training, and the relationship of the position to the fashion industry as a whole. The text highlights a variety of disruptions in the industry including e-commerce, technology, sustainability, and the post-pandemic world. A new box feature called Not Just Another Day At The Office spotlights emerging aspects of the fashion industry such as remote work; addressing sourcing challenges; and fast fashion. Use this text to get realistic insight into the world of fashion. New to this Edition - New Not Just Another Day At The Office feature allows students to see fashion industry issues and professional
£76.00
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Marketing Fashion
Book SynopsisJoseph H. Hancock II is a professor at Drexel University, USA, in the department of design. He has worked in management, branding, merchandising, and leadership for landmark companies, including The Gap, The Limited Corporation, and Target Corporation. He is the principal editor for the journal Fashion, Style & Popular Culture.
£95.00
The University of Chicago Press Tight Knit Global Families and the Social Life of
Book SynopsisThe coveted Made in Italy label calls to mind visions of nimble-fingered Italian tailors lovingly sewing elegant, high-end clothing. The phrase evokes a sense of authenticity, heritage, and rustic charm. Yet, as ElizabethL. Krause uncovers in Tight Knit, Chinese migrants are the ones sewing Made in Italy labels into low-cost items for a thriving fast-fashion industryall the while adding new patterns to the social fabric of Italy's iconic industry. Krause offers a revelatory look into how families involved in the fashion industry are coping with globalization based on longterm research in Prato, the historic hub of textile productionin the heart of metropolitan Tuscany. She brings to the fore the tensionsover value, money, beauty, family, care, and belongingthat are reaching a boiling point as the country struggles to deal with the same migration pressures that are triggering backlash all over Europe and North America. Tight Knit tells a fascinating story about the heterogeneity of
£24.00
McGill-Queen's University Press Fashioning Acadians
Book SynopsisWhat people wore in the distant past is often challenging to determine, owing to the disintegration of natural textiles and materials over time. Yet when new findings from archaeological excavations are compared with documentation about early Acadia, a fascinating picture of the society's early fashions is revealed.Fashioning Acadians is a history of clothesmaking and dress in Acadia from 1650 to 1750. Through the analysis of four Acadian settlements in what is now Nova Scotia, Hilary Doda uncovers the regional fashions and trends that had begun to emerge prior to the violence of the deportations of 1755. Men's and women's wardrobes are described from head to toe, from headdresses and hairstyles down to stockings and shoes, along with accessories such as buttons, buckles, and jewellery. While Acadians retained many aspects of the fashion systems of France, New France, and New England, a distinctive Acadian identity can be seen to take shape as their dress evolved andTrade Review“Fashioning Acadians is an innovative and path-breaking study that is not only a crucially important work in Acadian history but also a leading model of the importance of material culture analysis in early modern history more generally.” John G. Reid, Saint Mary's University and author of Essays on Northeastern North America: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries“A major contribution to the literature, this book will be a solid reference work for years to come for researchers of Canadian dress and culture. Hilary Doda’s methodology – of assessing the archaeological evidence for what is missing, and the documentary evidence for what is known – offers a great example for future studies on dress cultures for which little material evidence exists.” Linda Welters, University of Rhode Island and co-author of Fashion History: A Global View
£48.60
Columbia University Press Staging Personhood Costuming in Early Qing Drama
Book SynopsisStaging Personhood uncovers a hidden history of the Ming-Qing transition by exploring what it meant for the clothing of a deposed dynasty to survive onstage. Reading dramatic texts and performances against Qing sartorial regulations, Guojun Wang offers an interdisciplinary lens on the entanglements between Chinese drama and nascent Manchu rule.Trade ReviewA cogently written and deeply researched book, full of interpretative insights and rarely discussed materials. An important contribution to the study of Qing literature and history, this book will be a rich trove for all scholars interested in performances of gender and ethnicity in the early modern world. * Journal of Asian Studies *The arguments that Wang makes are richly detailed and compelling. I strongly recommend it to people interested in gender and ethnicity in the Qing, as well as scholars of fiction and drama. * International Journal of Comparative Literature *Benefit[s] scholars and students whose interest are not just limited to traditional Chinese theater or late imperial China, but more broadly in historical understandings of the Manchu empire and boundaries between self and others in terms of ethnic and gender relations. * Nan Nu *An exciting read even for those who know very little about Chinese or theater history. It is delicately edited and presented in a manner that is easy to grasp while also offering a wealth of complex information and philosophical interpretations of this historic contextualization. * Pennsylvania Literary Journal *By excavating how the individual body was transformed and how personhood, identity, and cultural mentality were shaped through costuming in literary writing, Wang refreshingly recenters the body in the study of classical Chinese dramatic literature. * Theatre Journal *The result of Wang’s skilful deconstruction of early Qing costuming is a rich piece of scholarship[.] * East Asian Journal of Popular Culture *A marvelous piece of scholarship, Staging Personhood presents an exhaustive study of the function of clothing on stage and off. While speaking to issues of sexuality, gender, masculinity, and status in real society, the book goes beyond the existing literature to introduce the body as a symbolic marker and site of detailed and sustained discourse. -- Stephen H. West, coeditor of The Orphan of Zhao and Other Yuan Plays: The Earliest Known VersionsIn this thoughtful and richly informative study of theatrical costume in the early Qing, Guojun Wang explores the dramatic transformation in the clothing and hairstyles of Han Chinese men through actual drama. Plunged into the imagined worlds created for audiences of long ago, the reader emerges from Staging Personhood with a sense of the play between costume and clothing, the theatrical and the everyday, that produced the sartorial landscape of early Qing China. -- Antonia Finnane, author of Changing Clothes in China: Fashion, History, NationA refreshing book that will encourage readers and researchers to pay closer attention to the modes and codes of theatrical costuming in association with issues of ethnicity, gender, and individual identities, embedded in the specific context of early Qing China. -- Tian Yuan Tan, author of Passion, Romance, and Qing: The World of Emotions and States of Mind in “Peony Pavilion”Solidly felted, seamlessly knitted, and shrewdly illuminative, Guojun Wang’s scholarship is a brocade of erudition—or should I say, a magician’s cloak, waving for overdue attention to the disappearing act of Qing stage costumes and their ghostly presence. Sharply revealed in Wang’s needle eye, class, gender, ethnicity, and, above all, time-space are no longer set fault lines of history, but are themselves warped and woven to the effect of costumed personhood. -- Ling Hon Lam, author of The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China: From Dreamscapes to TheatricalityWang has uncovered a fascinating context for studying Chinese theater that has been hiding in plain sight...This is a book that repays more than one reading. * T'oung Pao *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Costuming as Method1. Ways to Dress and Ways to See2. Across Genders and Ethnicities3. Between Family and State4. The Chaste Lady Immortal of Seamless Stitching5. From State Attire to Stage PropEpilogue: Dressing Other and SelfAppendix 1: Extant Editions of A Ten-Thousand-Li ReunionAppendix 2: Scene Synopsis of A Ten-Thousand-Li ReunionNotesWorks CitedIndex
£46.75
Indiana University Press Tailoring Identities
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£68.40
Indiana University Press Tailoring Identities
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£31.50
University of Texas Press Costume and History in Highland Ecuador
Book SynopsisUsing a wide variety of archaeological and archival evidence of indigenous clothing, jewelry, and hairstyles, scholars trace the history of costume in Ecuador from prehistory to the twentieth century.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction (Ann Pollard Rowe) Chapter 1. Ecuador before the Incas The Geography of Ecuador (Karen Olsen Bruhns) An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ecuador (Karen Olsen Bruhns) Costume in Ecuador before the Incas (Karen Olsen Bruhns) Evidence for Pre-Inca Textiles (Ann Pollard Rowe) Chapter 2. Ecuador under the Inca Empire The Incas in Quito (John Howland Rowe) Costume under the Inca Empire (Ann Pollard Rowe) Chapter 3. Ecuador under the Spanish Empire An Introduction to the History of Colonial Ecuador (Suzanne Austin) Colonial Costume (Lynn A. Meisch) Chapter 4. Historical Developments in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Ecuador (Margaret Young-Sánchez) Chapter 5. Carchi Province (Ecuador) and the Department of Nariño (Colombia) (Joanne Rappaport) Chapter 6. Costume in Imbabura Province Otavalo (Lynn A. Meisch) Natabuela (Ann Pollard Rowe) Eastern Imbabura and Northeastern Pichincha Provinces (Lynn A. Meisch and Ann Pollard Rowe) Chapter 7. Costume in Southern Pichincha Province (Ann Pollard Rowe) Chapter 8. Costume in Cotopaxi, Tungurahua, and Bolívar Provinces (Ann Pollard Rowe) Chapter 9. Costume in Chimborazo and Cañar Provinces (Ann Pollard Rowe) Chapter 10. Azuay Province The Cholos of Azuay: Historical Introduction (Margaret Young-Sánchez) Historic Costume in Azuay (Lynn A. Meisch and Ann Pollard Rowe) Chapter 11. Saraguro Costume in Loja Province (Lynn A. Meisch) Conclusions (Ann Pollard Rowe) Notes Glossary (Ann Pollard Rowe) References Cited Contributors Index
£999.99
University of Washington Press Making Kantha Making Home Women at Work in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ghosh’s monograph elevates kantha as a living tradition that enables women to express their own agency. Her treatise deliberately deviates from the 19th century intellectual engagement with kantha by art curators by going beyond the surface-level of the kantha as a decorative piece of cloth and speculates the intentions of the women behind these handiworks." * International Examiner *"Ghosh has crafted a heartwarming and sophisticated understanding of how home and kantha are inextricably tied to Bengali culture, connecting kantha makers, users and researchers across time and space." * Textiles Asia *
£78.14
Yale University Press The Mechanical Smile
Book SynopsisA superlative study of the roots of the modern fashion show
£40.38
Yale University Press Shoe Obsession
Book SynopsisAn astute exploration of the most outrageous shoe designs of the 21st centuryTrade Review"From wedge to prism to stiletto, Valerie Steele and Colleen Hill of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology meticulously chronicle the world of fancy footwear in their new book. . ."—T Magazine * T Magazine *
£26.12
Yale University Press Pretty Gentlemen
Book SynopsisAn exploration of British male fashion of the late eighteenth century A brilliant account of a controversial moment in men's self-fashioning.Valerie Steele, director and chief curator, Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology The term macaroni was once as familiar a label as punk or hipster is today. In this handsomelyillustrated book devoted to notable eighteenth-century British male fashion, award-winning author and fashion historian Peter McNeil brings together dress, biography, and historical events with the broader visual and material culture of the late eighteenth century. For thirty years, macaroni was a highly topical word, yielding a complex set of social, sexual, and cultural associations. Pretty Gentlemen is grounded in surviving dress, archival documents, and art spanning hierarchies and genres, from scurrilous caricature to respectful portrait painting. Celebrities hailed and mocked as macaroni include politician Charles James Fox, painter Richard Cosway, freed slave Julius Soubise, and criminal parson Reverend Dodd. The style also rapidly spread to neighboring countries in cross-cultural exchange, while Horace Walpole, George III, and Queen Charlotte were active critics and observers of these foppish men.Trade Review“Entertaining and illuminating.”—Marina Warner, Times Literary Supplement, “Books of the Year 2018”“[McNeil] creates an in-depth understanding of the macaroni world. . . . Both interesting and enjoyable for an insight into aspects of late eighteenth century society.”—Alison Fairhurst, Journal of Dress History“[A] beautifully illustrated and richly informative book.”—Norma Clark, Times Literary Supplement“[A] work of real academic merit.”—Gareth Wyn Davies, World of InteriorsLong listed for the Historians of British Art Book Prize
£35.62
Yale University Press Renaissance Splendor
Book SynopsisFeaturing detailed scenes of court pageantry and life-size portraits of members of the French Valois dynasty woven in wool, silk, and precious metal-wrapped threads, the Valois Tapestries are one of the most extravagant sets of hangings produced in the 16th century. The precise circumstances surrounding the tapestries' commission and their arrival at the Medici court in Florence, as well as the significance of the specific scenes depicted, however, have eluded scholars for years. Presenting new research into the political maneuvering of the Valois and Medici courts and providing extensive physical analysis gathered during a recent cleaning of the tapestries, this volume offers brand new insight into why these magnificent works were made and what they represent. Distributed for the Cleveland Museum of ArtExhibition Schedule:Cleveland Museum of Art (11/18/1801/21/19)
£28.50
Yale University Press Modern Look
Book SynopsisTrade Review“As a study in how the clash of cultures, art and commerce, and words and pictures can result in innovation and beauty, Modern Look is a timely book on a golden age.”—Theo Inglis, Communication Arts
£35.62
Yale University Press Ten Kings Clothes
Book SynopsisA richly illustrated glimpse into the magnificent collection of seventeenth-century men’s dress from the Danish kings’ wardrobes
£54.00
W. W. Norton & Company Fabrics A Guide for Interior Designers and
Book SynopsisFabrics provides designers with the information needed to make their fabric specifications easy, informed, and appropriate to the job at hand, considering aesthetics, performance, application, and green design.Trade Review"A worthy addition to an interior designer’s or decorator’s library…will intrigue the reader who wants to learn about [the] field." -- Julie Dillon - Houses: The Residential Architecture Magazine"Essential for anyone interested in cloth, particularly those who work with it professionally." -- Sydney Morning Herald
£56.99
The University of Michigan Press Méliès Boots
Book SynopsisBefore he became the father of cinematic special effects, George Melies (1861-1938) was a maker of deluxe French footwear, an illusionist, and a caricaturist. Proceeding from these beginnings, Melies Boots traces the full trajectory of Georges Melies’ career during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.Trade Review“MÉliÈs Boots is an extremely compelling and remarkably researched contribution to cinema studies, and it brings fresh insight to the figure of Georges MÉliÈs by situating his work deeply within the cultural and media archaeological context of his time.” —Colin Williamson, Rutgers UniversityTable of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Materializing Méliès Notes to Introduction Chapter 1: Artisanal Manufacturing Notes to Chapter 1 Chapter 2: IncohÉrent Infrastructure, Incohérent Fashion Notes to Chapter 2 Chapter 3: Stretching the Caricatural Aesthetic Notes to Chapter 3 Chapter 4: Modern Laughter and the Genre Méliès Notes to Chapter 4 Chapter 5: The New Profession of the Cinéaste Notes to Chapter 5 Conclusion: Toy Stories Notes to Conclusion
£23.70
John Wiley & Sons Inc How Fashion Works Couture Ready to Wear and Mass
Book SynopsisFashion deals with a world of illusion on the one hand and a hard-bitten, multifaceted and multi-billion pound industry on the other. This book shows how fashion operates on various levels: the mystery of haute couture is explained, the complexities of ready to wear are simplified, and the power of mass production assessed and evaluated.Trade ReviewIt is thoroughly researched, attractively presented and appealing in its unpretenious style. It is accessible, pertinent to different levels of expertise, and provides a distinctive insight to the fashion industry. Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management, vol 10, no 1; 2006Table of ContentsIntroduction. Couture. Ready-to-wear. Mass production. Tailoring. Menswear. Dressmaking. Millinery and accessories. The designers. Distribution. Fashion organisation and calendar. Considerations for the future. Appendices. Glossary. Bibliography. Useful addresses and websites
£28.49
McGill-Queen's University Press Womens Work Womens Art
Book SynopsisA richly illustrated study of the dress and adornment traditions of the Indigenous peoples of North America's western subarctic.Trade Review"There is nothing remotely like this authoritative and definitive work. The combination of detailed garment research with historical and ethnographic data informed by community-based research, makes Women's Work, Women's Art a model which surpasses anything to date. It will be a standard reference work for curators, material culture and native studies scholars, and members of Athapaskan communities." Laura Peers, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford "There are few publications on Northern Athapaskan clothing and none that cover the subject in such breadth and detail, showcasing the skills and knowledge of the makers - the women. Women's Work, Women's Art will make these museum collections more access "Comprehensive but straightforward, Women's Work, Women's Art is an exciting resource for a range of scholars and an interesting, engaging read for the layperson." Worn Through
£49.30
University of Pennsylvania Press Zoot Suit
Book SynopsisFocusing on the most notorious fashion of the 1940s, Zoot Suit traces its enigmatic career during World War II and after, as it spread from Harlem across the United States and around the world. In so doing, this book offers a new perspective on youth culture and the politics of style.Trade Review"Refreshingly skeptical of the intellectual habit of reducing all cultural expression to the political." * Wall Street Journal *"Peiss is a creative and brilliant scholar and her book is a much-welcomed addition to the body of scholarship dedicated to unlocking the riddle of the zoot." * American Historical Review *"Thorough, well-researched, and illuminating." * PopMatters *"An important and valuable book. The breadth of research upon which it is based and Peiss's determination to question conventional assumptions considerably enrich our understanding of the zoot." * Journal of American Studies *"Kathy Peiss brilliantly unravels the many meanings of the zoot suit while sustaining the aesthetic pleasure of its creation in the complex cultural fabric of American life. Zoot Suit is a cultural history laced with the eye of ethnography, showing how an original African American sartorial style carried substantial symbolic power into the lives of Mexican American pachucos suaves, Jewish tailor trumpeters, and all who would wear 'the Drape' as a statement of hipness." * Nick Spitzer, producer and host of American Routes *"Zoot Suit is a sophisticated, independent minded, and valuable book; there should be more work like it in the field. Peiss's principled attention to evidence, her nuanced argument, and her willingness to question conventional assumptions about the meaning of popular forms all go a long way toward re-grounding American Studies in the lived world." * Carlo Rotella, author of Good With Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Making the Suit Zoot 2 Going to Extremes 3 Into the Public Eye 4 From Rags to Riot 5 Reading the Riddle 6 Zooting Around the World Aftermath Notes Index Acknowledgments
£999.99
University of Pennsylvania Press Gilding the Market
Book SynopsisIn the fourteenth century, garish ornaments, bright colors, gilt, and military effects helped usher in the age of fashion in Italy. Over a short span of years important matters began to turn on the cut of a sleeve. Fashion influenced consumption and provided a stimulus that drove demand for goods and turned wealthy townspeople into enthusiastic consumers. Making wise decisions about the alarmingly expensive goods that composed a fashionable wardrobe became a matter of pressing concern, especially when the market caught on and became awash in cheaper editions of luxury wares.Focusing on the luxury trade in fashionable wear and accessories in Venice, Florence, and other towns in Italy, Gilding the Market investigates a major shift in patterns of consumption at the height of medieval prosperity, which, more remarkably, continued through the subsequent era of plague, return of plague, and increased warfare. A fine sensitivity to the demands of le pompe, that is, the public Trade Review"Gilding the Market effectively links the material and cultural, showing that fashionable clothing is not simply a matter of visual discourse and self-representation but a primary item of exchange." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"This wide-ranging book on the late medieval marketplace for luxury goods by a historian of enormous erudition and experience brings a lifetime of research to bear on the world of luxury consumption and . . . the advent of 'fashion.'" * American Historical Review *"An ambitious book that leads . . . into one of the most complex issues in the study of late medieval and early Renaissance Italy: the consumerist growth of a strong taste for and purchase, by those wealthy enough, of fashionable clothes and artifacts." * Speculum *Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Desirable Wares Chapter 3. Gravitas and Consumption Chapter 4. Curbing Women's Excesses Chapter 5. Costs of Luxuries Chapter 6. Shops and Trades Chapter 7. Marketmakers Chapter 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£52.70
University of Pennsylvania Press Historical Style
Book SynopsisHistorical Style connects the birth of eighteenth-century British consumer society to the rise of historical self-consciousness. Prior to the eighteenth century, British style was slow to change and followed the cultural and economic imperatives of monarchical regimes. By the 1750s, however, a growing fashion press extolled, in writing and illustration, the new phenomenon of periodized fashion trends. As fashion fads came in and out of style, and as fashion texts circulated and obsolesced, Britons were forced to confront the material persistence of out-of-date fashions. Timothy Campbell argues that these fashion texts and objects shaped British perception of time and history by producing new curiosity about the very recent past, as well as a new self-consciousness about the means by which the past could be understood.In a panoptic sweep, Historical Style brings together art history, philosophy, and literary history to portray an era increasingly aware of itself. Trade Review"Our ideas of history are dependent upon lived temporalities shaped by commercial and material forces, and I have never seen this truth so solidly, aptly, and compellingly explicated as in Timothy Campbell's book." * Erin Mackie, Syracuse University *"Original, witty, and very well-researched, Historical Style deftly argues that eighteenth-century British culture became self-consciously periodized through the new phenomenon of fashion trends." * Cynthia Wall, University of Virginia *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction. Fashions Past PART I. THE DRESS OF THE YEAR Chapter 1. Modern Fashion and Comparative Contemporaneity Chapter 2. Portrait Historicism and the Dress of the Times PART II. THE FICTIONS OF SERIAL HISTORY Chapter 3. Hume, Historical Succession, and the Dress of Rousseau Chapter 4. Historical Novelty and Serial Form Chapter 5. Walter Scott's Fashion Systems Chapter 6. William Godwin and the Objects of Historical Fiction Coda Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£56.10
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida The Veil Unveiled
Book SynopsisIllustrated with photographs, drawings, and cartoons gathered from popular culture, this provocative book demonstrates that the veil, the garment known in Islamic cultures as the hijab, holds within its folds a semantic versatility that goes far beyond current clichés and homogenous representations.
£34.16
University of Georgia Press Frankie Welchs Americana Fashion Scarves and
Book SynopsisFrankie Welch (1924-2021) combined a creative mind and an entrepreneurial spirit to establish herself as a leading American textile, accessories, and fashion designer in a career that spanned four decades, from the 1960s through the 1990s. This lavishly illustrated book provides a lively account of her life and career.Trade ReviewFrankie Welch’s Americana introduces readers to the ultimate Washington insider. With charm, skill, and entrepreneurial zeal, Welch worked her way into the closets of first ladies and other political women as a stylist, personal shopper, and designer of campaign fashions. Ashley Callahan’s lively telling of the story of Welch’s career makes an important contribution to the story of American design." - Susan Brown
£999.99
Duke University Press Muslim Fashion
Book SynopsisReina Lewis analyzes Muslim modest clothing as fashion and shows how young Muslim women (with a focus on Britain, North America, and Turkey) are part of an emergent transnational youth subculture who use fashion to negotiate religion, identity, ethnicity, and mainstream consumer culture.Trade Review"Muslim Fashion is a thorough and thoughtful study of what it means to be a hijabi in a time and place where religion, politics, ethnicity, class, gender, generation and nationality meet and potentially clash. ... In treating hijab as fashion, Lewis counters the use of images of veiled women as 'evidence' that Muslims and Islam are incompatible with Western modernity and offers another, richer view of women in veils." -- Bel Jacobs"Lewis's book cheerfully celebrates the confidence of these Muslim women, Peeking into the sanctuary of their subculture and carefully documenting their experience. It is an intelligent and serious study, abstemiously refraining from inferences, criticisms or generalizations, and yet unmistakably polemical too in the quiet case it makes against the idea of an archaic Islam conventionally positioned as antithetical to modernity." -- Shahidha Bari * TLS *"Intersecting issues of religion, youth culture and class, Lewis presents a fascinating picture of what Islamic fashion looks like in Muslim minority countries such as France, the United States and the United Kingdom.... Lewis’s book is grounded in her personal experience, archival work of many years and some very rich ethnography making this a key text on Muslim fashion for many years to come." -- Rohit K Dasgupta * Clothing Cultures * "Written by a pioneering scholar of gender and Orientalism, Muslim Fashion is one of the most important recent publications in the growing field of Islamic fashion studies. Analyzing the consumption practices of practicing Muslims in Turkey and diasporic communities in Europe, the book would also be of interest for scholars of Europe and the Middle East. With its interdisciplinary approach, rigorous methodology, and elaborate theoretical framework, Muslim Fashion asks new questions about the constitution of Muslim subjectivities and the everyday experience of Islam." -- Rüstem Ertug Altinay * Europe Now *"With Muslim Fashion, Reina Lewis makes a rich and welcome contribution to a growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship that explores religiously motivated modes of dressing as evolving, complex and dynamic acts intertwining individual choice, fashion trends and conceptions of piety. . . . Ambitious in both theoretical and topical scope, Muslim Fashion deftly illuminates the multiplicity of approaches to pious dress that constitute Muslim modernities." -- Ann Marie Leshkowich * International Journal of Fashion Studies *"The book is a significant contribution to ethnic, gender, cultural, Middle East and migration studies. It will greatly benefit graduate and undergraduate college students in these fields. It is also an attractive topic to general readers who want to learn about Muslim fashion away from the dominant polarized politics about Islam and Muslims in the West." -- Enaya H. Othman * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Through a rich ethnography of Muslim consumers, fashion professionals and media operatives – across a range of entwined religious and secular fashionscapes – Lewis shows that the liminality of a new generation of Muslims is, rather, not a type of crisis, but instead a unique source of competence and cultural capital. . . . Through this invaluable and detailed study, Lewis furthermore contributes to the growing wealth of literature that sympathetically considers the everyday practise and expression of religion through material culture. Muslim Fashion synthesises many relevant cross-disciplinary concerns and will no doubt be widely recognised as a landmark publication." -- Carl Morris * Religion, State and Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Veils and Sales 1 1. From Multiculture to Multifaith: Consumer Culture and the Organization of Rights and Resources 35 2. The Commercialization of Islamic Dress: Selling and Marketing Tessettür in Turkey and Beyond 69 3. Muslim Lifestyle Magazines: A New Mediascape 109 4. Taste and Distinction: The Politics of Style 163 5. Hijabi Shop Workers in Britain: Muslim Style Knowledge as Fashion Capital? 199 6. Modesty Online: Commerce and Commentary on the Net 237 7. Commodification and Community 287 Conclusion 317 Notes 323 References 331 Index 365
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Duke University Press Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet
Book SynopsisMinh-ha T. Pham examines the phenomenal rise and influence of elite Asian personal style superbloggers such as Susie Bubble and Bryanboy. Situating blogging within the historical context of gendered racial fashion work and global consumer capitalism, Pham analyzes how race, class, gender, and sexuality affect bloggers' work, opportunities, and rewards.Trade Review"[A] deeply engaging and sophisticated discussion of the race and gender dynamics that affect Asian fashion labor." -- Christine Wu * Japan Times *"Pham’s book is sharp, punchy and eminently readable. It is full of shrewd visual and textual analysis of the content of blogs and puts forward a muchneeded critique of the kinds of critiques that bloggers themselves tend to have launched at them. . . . I thoroughly enjoyed reading Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet, and I would recommend it to any scholar interested in blogging, social media, personal style, creative labour or race and gender politics in fashion today." -- Brent Luvaas * International Journal of Fashion Studies *"With Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet, Pham makes a significant contribution to scholarship on fashion, race, gender, and online media by eloquently demonstrating the ambivalent outcomes when Asianness becomes productive of economic and cultural value. While Asian superbloggers serve as evidence that the previously marginalized can gain entry into fashion’s highest status venues, Pham deftly shows that behind the veneer of this apparent democratization lies an unpaid or underpaid, racialized labor force." -- Ann Marie Leshkowich * Media Industries *"Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet makes an important scholarly contribution not only to the field of media and cultural studies but to ethnic, gender, and queer studies as well. In this sense, it is an excellent example of intersectional, feminist digital culture research that continues to be needed in order to better understand how the visibilities and movement of embodied identities work across digital culture." -- Jessalynn Keller * Cinema Journal *"Pham’s is one of the first of its kind in offering a critical investigation of the personal-style blogosphere.... Though the work of creating selfies and writing blog entries about clothing is often considered more within the realm of leisure than labor, Pham convincingly argues that the work of being a superblogger is highly labor intensive." -- Anita Mannur * American Quarterly *"Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet is a compelling book to read, deserving critical acclaim for its originality and insightful contribution to digital fashion media studies concerning the dynamic relations of race, gender, class, and labor. It is good for researchers who are interested in, and classes where the focus is on, fashion studies; digital media; and critical cultural analysis of race, gender, and class." -- Sara Liao * Journal of Asian Studies *"This is an ambitious project, but Pham is up to the task. Pham’s attention to the blog as both a cultural form and a commercial project is supported with textual and visual evidence garnered from blogs themselves. In doing so, she not only makes her argument, she demonstrates a model of digital analysis that is both traditional and novel at the same time. After reading this book, it will be hard to argue against the merits of 'blog studies.'” -- Erin M. Arizzi * Feminist Media Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Asian Personal Style Superbloggers and the Material Conditions and Contexts of Asian Fashion Work 1 1. The Taste and Aftertaste for Asian Superbloggers 41 2. Style Stories, Written Tastes, and the Work of Self-Composure 81 3. "So Many and All the Same" (but Not Quite): Outfit Photos and the Codes of Asian Eliteness 105 4. The Racial and Gendered Job Performances of Fashion Blogger Poses 129 5. Invisible Labor and Racial Visibilities in Outfit Posts 167 Coda. All in the Eyes 193 Notes 201 Bibliography 219 Index 247
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Fordham University Press The Garb of Being
Book SynopsisThis collection explores how the body became a touchstone for late antique religious practice and imagination. When we read the stories and testimonies of late ancient Christians, what different types of bodies stand before us? How do we understand the range of bodily experiencessolitary and social, private and publicthat clothed ancient Christians? How can bodily experience help us explore matters of gender, religious identity, class, and ethnicity? The Garb of Being investigates these questions through stories from the Eastern Christian world of antiquity: monks and martyrs, families and congregations, and textual bodies.Contributors include S. Abrams Rebillard, T. Arentzen, S. P. Brock, R. S. Falcasantos , C. M. Furey, S. H. Griffith, R. Krawiec, B. McNary-Zak, J.-N. Mellon Saint-Laurent, C. T. Schroeder, A. P. Urbano, F. M. YoungTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations | xi Introduction. Dangling Bodies, Robes of Glory: The Garb of Embodiment in Ancient Christianity Georgia Frank, Susan R. Holman, and Andrew S. Jacobs | 1 Part I: Making Bodies Body and Soul: Union in Creation, Reunion at Resurrection Frances Young | 15 Jesus’s Dazzling Garments: Origen’s Exegesis of the Transfiguration in the Commentary on Matthew Arthur P. Urbano | 35 Conversing with Clothes: Germanos and Mary’s Belt Thomas Arentzen | 57 Part II: Performing Bodies “Denominationalism” in Fourth-Century Syria: Readings in Saint Ephraem’s Hymns against Heresies, Madrāshê 22–24 Sidney H. Griffith | 79 A School for the Soul: John Chrysostom on Mimēsis and the Force of Ritual Habit Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos | 101 A Question of Character: The “Labor of Composition” as “Preventative Medicine” in Theodoret of Cyrrhus’s Religious History Rebecca Krawiec | 124 “I Want to Be Alone”: Ascetic Celebrity and the Splendid Isolation of Simeon Stylites Andrew S. Jacobs | 145 Crowds and Collective Affect in Romanos’s Biblical Retellings Georgia Frank | 169 Christian Legend in Medieval Iraq: Siblings, Sacrifice, and Sanctity in Behnam and Sarah Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent | 191 Part III: Scripting Bodies Five Women Martyrs: From Persia to Crete Sebastian Brock | 221 Gregory of Nazianzus’s Poetic Ascetic Aesthetic Suzanne Abrams Rebillard | 234 Eclipsed in Exile: In Defense of Athanasius and the Ethiopians Bernadette McNary-Zak | 263 Sacred Bonds: Religion, Relationships, and the Art of Pedagogy Constance M. Furey | 276 “And Yet the Books”: Patristics in the Footnotes Susan R. Holman | 294 Cultural Heritage Preservation and Canon Formation: What Syriac and Coptic Can Teach Usabout the Historiography of the Digital Humanities Caroline T. Schroeder | 318 Bibliography | 347 List of Contributors | 391 Index | 397
£54.00
University of Hawai'i Press Transcending Patterns Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textile Images Perspectives on the Global Past
Book SynopsisInvestigates the origin and effects of a textile-mediated visual culture that developed at the heart of the Silk Road between the seventh and fourteenth centuries. Gasparini's history offers critical perspectives that extend far beyond an outmoded notion of Silk Road studies.Trade ReviewIn deploying a transcultural framework, Mariachiara Gasparini demonstrates the ways in which the material can become more open to multiple meanings and mirror its multifaceted uses with a more flexible, interpretive framework. In her analysis of the material forms of silk in China, the Himalayan Kingdoms including Ladakh, and its constitution in Italy, it may be too soon to say whether Gasparini has single-handedly engineered a field-changing, barrier-breaking analysis of the stuff that brought the "Silk Road" trading routes into existence, but we can state with certainty that she has given researchers tools to fabricate concrete arguments for further study.
£64.50
Yale University Press Off the Wall
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£35.62
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Dress and Popular Culture
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£999.99
John Wiley & Sons Managing Costume Collections An Essential Primer
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£30.56
John Wiley & Sons Managing Costume Collections
£18.86
Devon & Cornwall Record Society The Exeter Cloth Dispatch Book 17631765
Book SynopsisWinner of the Best Books on Devon's History: Academic Award from the Devon History SocietyA richly illustrated exploration of the national and international importance of the early modern Exeter cloth trade.This book reproduces a newly discovered manuscript detailing the exports of Claude Passavant, a Swiss émigré merchant. Passavant's dispatch book comprises the most extensive surviving collection of Devon cloth with 2,475 surviving cloth samples. Thirteen chapters discuss the local and wider contexts of eighteenth-century cloth making. This study explores the quality, range, and vibrancy of cloth that lead to Exeter becoming an internationally renowned centre for the manufacture and trade of woollen cloth.Trade Reviewa well rounded detailed study of various aspects of the wool trade and cloth production in Exeter and surrounding area, based on a variety of sources, placing Exeter and Devon in comparison to other English textile centres of the period like Norfolk or Manchester. * The Journal of Dress History *Taken as a whole, this handsomely-produced and very readable volume adds significantly to what was previously known about Devon clothmaking and can serve as a comprehensive handbook for those coming to the subject for the first time. -- Local HistorianTable of ContentsIntroduction CLAUDE PASSAVANT AND EXETER Claude Passavant Exeter in the 1760s CLOTH MANUFACTURE Claude Passavant's dispatch book: an analysis Exeter's cloth merchants and industry in the 1760s The Incorporation of Fullers, Weavers and Shearmen, in 1764 Exeter's fulling mills in the mid eighteenth century The archaeology of the cloth industry in Exeter Cloth dyes and dyeing in the eighteenth century An outline history of the Exeter dyers Exeter lead cloth merchants' seals - a provisional listing Tillet blocks CLOTH Tiverton's woollen cloth trade in the 1760s Sandfords PATTERN BOOKS Westcountry pattern books Norwich pattern books, pattern cards and patterns Folding pattern cards: marketing Lancashire fustians in the 1780s THE DISPATCH BOOK Appendix 1: The Topsham bale book, 1763 Appendix 2: The cloth account of John Hern of Ashburton, 1771-76 Appendix 3: Letter of Claude Passavant to Henry Pelham, 16 October 1752 Appendix 4: Letter of John Siper to Thomas Windeatt, 5 July 1756 Appendix 5: Four Devon dye recipes, c.1710
£33.25
The University of Chicago Press A WellFashioned Image
Book SynopsisThis richly illustrated catalogue, the fourth in a series sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, features essays on the subject of costume and a substantial bibliography on the topic of costumes in art and an exhibition checklist.
£16.50
Fowler Museum At Ucla Dressed with Distinction
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Kogan Page Ltd Fashion Brand Management
Book SynopsisAlison Lowe is a leading expert on fashion brand development and growth. Based in London, UK, she founded and leads a fashion incubator agency and an online support platform, Start Your Own Fashion Label. She develops and teaches courses at the London College of Fashion, University of East London, University of the Arts London and Emlyon Business School. A regular international conference speaker, she also consults for brands across the globe, is a judge for the Great British Entrepreneur Awards and has been awarded an MBE for Services to the Fashion Industry.Trade Review"Addresses the changes of sustainability and digitalization brilliantly, highlighting some amazing examples. A wonderful guide for students with entrepreneurial ambitions." * Professor José Teunissen, Dean at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London *"Alison brings to the table an unbeatable combination of years of experience and an accessible writing style which addresses fashion's issues with admirable directness." * Maurice Mullen, Head of Fashion & Luxury Goods, Evening Standard *"Provides a fresh contemporary approach to the subject of fashion business, fusing both core academic theory and practical tips." * Alexandra Hill, Course Leader, Norwich University of the Arts *"Provides a thorough introduction to all aspects of fashion management while maintaining a clear strategic focus" * Sennait Ghebreab, Programme Leader Business BA Courses at Istituto Marangoni London *"A must-read primer for anyone considering fashion business and management. Read this book and learn from one of the best." * Kent Le, Programme Leader MA International Fashion Business, University of East London and Adjunct Professor for Business of Fashion, Fordham University *"A crucial textbook for fashion studies and an important reference point for those working in fashion branding, fashion businesses and their related industries." * Ram Shergill, Editor in Chief, The Protagonist Magazine *Table of Contents Chapter - 01: Putting the customer first; Chapter - 02: Competitive advantage; Chapter - 03: Purpose, planet, people; Chapter - 04: Business foundations for fashion brands; Chapter - 05: Product design and development; Chapter - 06: Supply chain management; Chapter - 07: Brand storytelling and management; Chapter - 08: Innovation and technology; Chapter - 09: Driving sales; Chapter - 10: Marketing and promotion; Chapter - 11: Finance; Chapter - 12: Future entrepreneurial advantage for fashion brands; Chapter - 13: Glossary;
£85.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Material Strategies
Book SynopsisMaterial Strategies brings together scholars from different disciplines to explore what dress and textiles can tell us about gender history. * Broad in scope -- covers women, men, social groupings and nations from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.Trade Review"This stands out as a vaulable summation of the many approaches which, in shorthand, can be described as 'the new dress history'." Valerie Cummings "This book is a significant, interdisciplinary consideration of the gendered characteristics of clothing that provides new conceptual frameworks and methodologies for the interpretation of attire across tiem and culture. Material Strategies should further move clothing and fashion scholarship out of its ghetto and into the mainstream. Textile HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: Material Strategies Engendered: Barbara Burman (University of Southampton) and Carole Turbin (SUNY/Empire State College). Part I: Dress, Textiles and Social Transitions in Pre-industrial Europe:. 1. Fashion, Time and the Consumption of a Renaissance Man in Germany: The Costume Book of Matthaus Schwarz of Augsburg, 1496-1564: Gabriele Mentges (University of Dortmund). 2. Reflections on Gender and Status Distinction: An Analysis of the Liturgical Textiles Recorded in Mid-Sixteenth-Century London: Maria Hayward (University of Southampton). Part II: Identity and Eroticism, Consumption and Production, from the Early Seventeenth to the Mid-Twentieth Century:. 1. Following Suit: Men, Masculinity and Gendered Practices in the Clothing Trade in Leeds, England, 1890-1940: Katrina Honeyman (University of Leeds). 2. Pocketing the Difference: Gender and Pockets in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Barbara Burman (University of Southampton). 3. Fashioning the American Man: The Arrow Collar Man, 1907-1931: Carole Turbin. 4. Erotic Modesty: (ad)dressing Female Sexuality and Propriety in Open and Closed Drawers, USA, 1800-1930: Jill Fields (California State University, Fresno). Part III: Fashion Strategies for Reconfiguring Nations and Social Groups in the Early Twentieth Century:. 1. ‘De-Humanised Females and Amzonians’: British Wartime Fashion and its Representation in Home Chat, 1914-1918: Cheryl Buckley (University of Northumbria). 2. Fashion, the Politics of Style and National Identity in Pre-Fascist and Fascist Italy: Eugenia Paulicelli (City University of New York). 3. Style and Subversion: Postwar Poses and the Neo-Edwardian Suit in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain: Christopher Breward (London College of Fashion). 4. ‘Anti-Mini Militants Meet Modern Misses’: Urban Style, Gender and the Politics of ‘National Culture’ in 1960s Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Andrew M. Ivaska (University of Michigan). 5. Dressing for Leadership in China: Wives and Husbands in an Age of Revolutions (1911-1976): Verity Wilson (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Fashion Source Book
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive source book sets out over 1750 working drawings of garments, accessories and their details, which can be used for reference while designing. Each drawing, which may be a historical, classical, ethnic or inspirational example, is correctly named and fully described in the extensive glossary, thus providing the visual information that is lacking from fashion dictionaries. In addition, a range of useful fashion poses is provided for women, men and children (from birth to teenage) with instructions on how these may be developed by readers and used as templates for their own illustrations. All the illustrations are copyright-free, enabling readers to use and adapt as they wish. All the illustrations have been redrawn traditionally then subjected to contemporary computer graphics techniques with a view to clearly communicating shape and detail. As much fabric representation' as possible has been illustrated, on relevantTable of ContentsFIGURES: Children - Newborn 0-3 months; 3-9 months; 10-12 months; 12-14 months; 14-20 months; 20-24 months; 2-2½ years; 2½-4 years; 5-6 years; 7-9 years; 10-11 years; 12-14 years; Women; Men; CHILDRENSWEAR: Girls/Boyswear; MENS/WOMENSWEAR: Outerwear; Jackets; Waistcoats; Trousers; Suits; Skirts; Swimwear; Dresses; Shirts; Tops; Loungewear; Nightwear; Knitwear; Underwear; ACCESSORIES: Bags; Gloves; Hats; Belts; Neckwear; Boots; Shoes; Sports shoe; Hosiery; PRODUCTION: Seams/finishes; Fullness/pockets; Fastenings; CONSTRUCTION: Sleeves; Cuffs; Collars; Necklines; Waist/hemlines; PROPORTION: Children's; Men's and Women's; FASHION ILLUSTRATION; GLOSSARY
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Apparel Industry
Book SynopsisThis textbook describes the structure of the industry in the UK and globally, and explains the current problems and strategic responses to global shifts in production. The new edition has been updated throughout to include the lastest available data, and takes account of the acceleration of the decline of manufacturing in the UK since 2002, the rapid expansion of production in China, and the final demise of the system of quota control. Essential subject for students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. An expert guide to a bewilderingly complex industry. No competition. Addresses global issues, the opportunities and threats, with strategies for survival. Author is Editor of International Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management. Table of ContentsWhat is the apparel industry?. The apparel industry in the UK: current size and structure. The apparel sector in the global economy. The role of labour costs and theories of development. The facts: UK apparel trade: the current trade position. The concept of globalisation. The response to global shift: strategic imperatives and the diamond framework. Issues in offshore production strategies. The role of trade barriers and exchange rate fluctuations in the global apparel market. The economics of the UK apparel market. Emerging markets and the globalisation of the UK apparel industry. Conclusions in the light of the textile industry policy of the EU and the future growth of China
£31.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Guide to Basic Garment Assembly for the Fashion
Book SynopsisFashion and clothing design students must have a general understanding of garment assembly techniques if they hope to have their design ideas realized.Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgements ix 1 Introduction 1 Getting Started 2 Getting to Know the Parts of the Sewing Machine 3 2 Stitch & Seam Types 5 Stitch Types 8 Seam Types 17 3 Attachments for the Sewing Machine 25 Edge Guide 25 Presser Foot 27 Hemming Foot 28 Zipper Foot 29 Folders 30 4 Needles & Thread 31 Parts of the Needle 31 Thread 34 Thread Consumption 36 Thread Sizing 37 5 Interlining 41 Fusing Equipment 42 Applying Interlining 43 6 Sewing Darts 47 7 Front Edge Fastenings 51 8 Inserting Zip Fastenings 59 Invisible Zip Insertion 60 Concealed or Standard Zip with Guard Insertion 64 9 Attaching Waistbands 71 Standard ‘Run On and Close Down’ Waistband Application 71 Elasticated Waistband 76 10 Assembling & Attaching Pockets 79 Patch Pocket 80 Shaped Pockets 84 Jetted Pocket 88 Welt Pocket 94 11 Sleeve Opening Construction 101 12 Assembling & Attaching Cuffs 109 Two Piece Cuff 110 One Piece Cuff 113 Attaching the Cuff to the Sleeve 115 13 Assembling & Attaching Collars 117 Collar Parts 117 Stand Collar (Frequently Known as the Mandarin Collar) 118 Attaching the Stand Collar 121 Flat Collar (Also Known as the Peter Pan Collar) 123 Attaching the Flat Collar 125 One-Piece Shirt Collar 127 Attaching the Shirt Collar 130 14 Sewing Problems 133 Stitch Formation Problems 133 Fabric Distortion – Pucker 135 Damage to the Fabric 137 Garment Assembly Terms Glossary 141 Author 143 Index 145
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Johns Hopkins University Press Treasures Afoot
Book SynopsisShoes reveal the hopes, dreams, and disappointments of the early Americans who wore them. Honorable Mention of the Historic New England Book Prize by Historic New EnglandIn Treasures Afoot, Kimberly S. Alexander introduces readers to the history of the Georgian shoe. Presenting a series of stories that reveal how shoes were made, sold, and worn during the long eighteenth century, Alexander traces the fortunes and misfortunes of wearers as their footwear was altered to accommodate poor health, flagging finances, and changing styles. She explores the lives and letters of clever apprentices, skilled cordwainers, wealthy merchants, and elegant brides, taking readers on a colorful journey from bustling London streets into ship cargo holds, New England shops, and, ultimately, to the homes of eager consumers. We trek to the rugged Maine frontier in the 1740s, where an aspiring lady promenades in her London-made silk brocade pumps; sail to London in 1765 to listen in as Benjamin Franklin andTrade ReviewAlexander spent eight years researching [Treasures Afoot], which examines eighteenth-century shoes from thirty different collections, plus thousands of original letters, inventories and other manuscripts. Each shoe or pair of shoes is the catalyst for a story of how it was made, sold and worn, told in astonishing depth and detail.—Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, Ornament MagazineVery engagingly written . . . Shoe history is a very popular field, and [Treasures Afoot] deserves to be widely read, as it is an excellent contribution to the histories of material culture and transatlantic consumerism.—Matthew McCormack, University of Northampton, Journal for Eighteenth-Century StudiesThis impeccably researched, written and illustrated book is enough on its own as a study of surviving luxury objects from almost a century of American history.—Stella Tillyard, Times Literary Supplement[Treasures Afoot] is well written and easy to read . . . an interesting addition to the very limited number of works specifically about eighteenth century shoes.—Alison Fairhurst, The Journal of Dress HistoryThis is a book that will intrigue students and scholars of American and Material Culture Studies, as well as anyone interested in fashion, history, or—what else?—shoes! It is well researched, accessible, and it interweaves history, biography, and engaging shoe stories in a brilliant manner, doing justice to all the strands in draws to it. It would be a delight to see more endeavors like this one undertaken by and circulating among Americanists.—Katerina Delikonstantinidou, European Journal of American StudiesIn this richly illustrated volume, Kimberly S. Alexander focuses on footwear as a way to nuance and enrich our understanding of key themes in eighteenth-century British American history and culture. By tracing the production, sale, and (re)use of shoes, she revisits the development and maturation of gentility, consumer culture, and production networks across the latter decades of empire and the early years of the republic. In doing so, her study illuminates new facets of familiar dynamics, such as colonial American utilization of consumer items to craft social identities. The work also brings fresh attention to less familiar areas, such as how early American habits of recycling certain consumer items helped define class identities, familial relationships, and economic habits. As a result, much in this study will interest a broad range of scholars of early American society and culture.—Sarah Fatherly, Queens University of Charlotte, Journal of American HistoryTreasures Afoot illuminates the production and consumption of shoes in eighteenth-century colonial America, by examining the complexities of individual and national concerns, challenging longstanding assumptions and unearthing intriguing characters. Alexander's fascinating book is highly recommended.—Hillary Davidson, CostumeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The Cordwainers Chapter 2. Wedding Shoes Chapter 3. The Value of a London Label Chapter 4. Coveting Calamancos: From London to Lynn Chapter 5. The Cordwainer's Lament: Benjamin Franklin and John Hose Testify on the Effects of the Stamp Act Chapter 6. "For My Use, Four Pair of Neat Shoes": George Washington, Virginia Planter, and Mr. Didsbury, Boot- and Shoemaker of London Chapter 7. Boston's Cordwainers Greet President Washington, 1789 Conclusion Epilogue Appendixes Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Freelance Fashion Designers Handbook
Book SynopsisDo you have the passion and the creativity for fashion? Why not earn a living from it? The Freelance Fashion Designer''s Handbook is your essential guide on how to go it alone, covering what to expect, making sure you get paid, planning your time, keeping up with your accounts, compiling technical packages for garments. It is your portable mentor, equipping you to work independently. Part 1 covers all the information to becoming a freelance designer such as creating a basic freelance contract, invoicing, how to find work, tax returns and much more. All supported with case studies. Part 2 contains the technical aspects of being a designer - including how to compile full technical packages for garments to be manufactured abroad.Trade Review'A clear and comprehensive guide to working as a freelance designer...truly a warts and all essential guide for aspiring designers' (Nina Faresin, Emtex Designer Forum) 'A detailed, comprehensive and a very useful reference book for all designers, freelance or otherwise. It is written from the heart by someone who has been on the journey of experience and now wants to help others to have a less painful journey.' (Angela Peers, Principal Lecturer, Department of Clothing Design & Technology, Manchester Metropolitan University)Table of ContentsAbout the author xi Acknowledgements xiii About the website xiv Glossary xv Part 1 Setting up as a Freelance Designer Chapter 1 The Reality of Life as a Designer 3 1 Will freelance work be suitable for you? 4 2 Experience, qualifications, skills and abilities 9 3 Working alone, self-discipline and motivation 13 Chapter 2 Getting Started 17 1 Selecting a location 18 2 Working from home or in a studio 20 3 Buying equipment, IT and furniture 23 4 Creating your company profile and CV 25 5 Planning your portfolio 27 6 Choosing a working wardrobe 28 7 Identifying pitfalls and customer issues 30 Chapter 3 Getting Work and Getting Paid 33 1 Where to look for work and how to get it 34 2 Professional organisations 36 3 Sales techniques 38 4 Calculating your rates and expenses 39 5 Interview tips 43 Chapter 4 Estimates and Invoices 47 1 Calculating an estimate or quote 48 2 Invoicing clients 51 3 Travelling abroad with and for a client 53 4 What your client expects from you 54 Chapter 5 Financial Matters 57 1 Choosing an accountant 58 2 Finance and bank accounts 59 3 Income tax 60 4 Bookkeeping and accountancy 61 5 National Insurance contributions 69 6 VAT – do I need to register? 69 7 Pension provision 70 8 Employing staff 70 9 Health and safety 71 10 Insurance 71 Chapter 6 Legal Aspects 73 1 The importance of contracts 74 2 Writing a contract 74 3 Intellectual property rights, copyright and design rights 76 4 Keeping yourself safe from prosecution for breach of copyright 77 5 Confidentiality 78 6 Keeping up to date with UK and EU law 79 7 How to find an expert on law in the fashion industry 79 Chapter 7 Getting Paid 81 1 Chasing outstanding invoices 82 2 What to do when a client fails to pay 82 3 The small claims court 83 Chapter 8 Planning Your Time 87 1 The working day 88 2 Your freelance diary 89 3 Holidays and your year plan 89 4 Interruptions and distractions 90 5 How to stand your ground when unreasonable demands are made 92 6 Computer timesheets 94 7 Backing up 100 Chapter 9 Training and Education 101 1 Extra training 102 2 Seminars and training courses for the self-employed 102 3 Part-time teaching 103 Part 2 Preparing Work for Production Chapter 10 Design and Development 107 1 Research and trends 108 2 Working to a design brief 109 3 Concept and design, style or shape 110 4 The PANTONE® colour system 111 5 Colour palettes 113 6 Branding 114 7 Tickets and labels 114 8 Preparing roughs 115 9 Presenting your ideas to your client 115 Chapter 11 Presentation and Finished Designs 117 1 Using drawing software for presentation CADs 118 2 Phases of a project 118 3 Phase 1: Preparing presentation roughs 119 4 Preparing a CAD template for a client 122 5 Preparing a colour palette 123 6 Phase 2: Preparing presentation-standard A4 CADs 125 7 Phase 3: Preparing detailed garment specifications 133 8 Compiling the full technical package 141 9 References 142 Chapter 12 Sizing 143 1 Sizing issues 144 2 Access to current information 145 3 Why sizing is different for different companies 146 4 Charts for specific sizing issues 147 5 Creating Excel size charts 148 6 Flat measurements 150 7 Grade increments 151 8 Pre-production sampling and size sets 152 9 Tolerance 153 10 Creating a ‘to fit’ body measurement size chart 153 11 Creating a garment size chart 155 12 References 164 Organisations and Useful Information 165 Index 169
£26.59
The University of North Carolina Press Common Threads
Book SynopsisAn illustrated cultural history of the apparel worn by American Catholics, Sally Dwyer-McNulty's Common Threads reveals the transnational origins and homegrown significance of clothing in developing identity, unity, and a sense of respectability for a major religious group that had long struggled for its footing in a Protestant-dominated society often openly hostile to Catholics.Trade ReviewContributes not just to U.S. Catholic history but also to the cultural history of clothing more broadly"". - Journal of American History""Dwyer-McNulty traces how religious dress evolved in America"". - Boston Globe""[Dwyer-McNulty] has broken open a wealth of significance behind a highly visible aspect of the lived experience of U.S. Catholics"". - American Historical Review""A compelling analysis of how the members of a subculture within American society have utilized appearance to negotiate their status"". - Journal of American Culture""Catholic and American cultural studies at its best"". - Magistra: Journal of Women's Spirituality In History""Recommended. All levels/libraries"". - Choice
£26.36
Duke University Press Work
Book SynopsisElspeth H. Brown traces modeling's history from the advent of photographic modeling in the early twentieth century to the rise of the supermodel in the 1980s, showing how it is both the quintessential occupation of a modern consumer economy and a practice that has been shaped by queer sensibilities.Trade Review"Whether it’s the showgirls of the 1920s, fashion photographer George Platt Lynes spearheading 'queer glamour' in the 1930s, or the groundbreaking Black models of the 1950s and ’60s, Brown’s book will reshape our understanding of the modeling industry." -- Evette Dionne * Bitch *"Modelling is a queer business in every sense of that word. Brown’s exploration of it is fascinating: intelligent and unexpected in the turns that its analysis takes. This is no glib foray into celebrity culture, no superficial survey of supermodels. . . . A strikingly original, non-normative telling of 20th-century culture." -- Shahidha Bari * Times Higher Education *"Everyone from armchair fashionistas to modeling industry executives will find something to ponder in this original, creative, and beautifully queer examination of the international fashion machine and the role of the human model." -- Jim Piechota * Bay Area Reporter *"Work! is a deep dive into the history of a profession that is often regarded by many with surface-level thought. Modeling is often tasked to help create an image worth a thousand words, but Brown successfully uses more than that to show how the vocation and its inherent queerness pervades multiple aspects of America’s culture." -- Alex Tunney * Lambda Literary Review *"Exploring both fashion stills and the history of live modelling that eventually shaped black drag, Brown’s Work! is revelatory because it is intersectional and, arguably, the first comprehensive historical treatment of this lucrative industry, where various forms of influential queerness have been hiding in plain sight." -- Nathalie Atkinson * Globe and Mail *"A necessary addition to the fields of LGBTQ and fashion scholarship. . . . Brown’s book is a study in strength and courage inside a system predicated upon inequality, injustice, and harm—a beacon of light in a time of darkness and a reminder that there is far more to an image than meets the eye." -- Miss Rosen * Feature Shoot *"The book is a pleasure to read, full of interesting anecdotes about celebrated photographers like Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, Adolph de Meyer, Horst P. Horst, George Platt Lynes, and Edward Steichen. It is also illustrated with color photographs from the world of fine art and the pages of magazines like Vogue, Ebony, and Jet. This is a book for scholars and enthusiasts of fashion. . . . Recommended. All readers." -- T. Nygard * Choice *"Richly detailed and meticulously researched, Elspeth Brown’s Work! offers an intersectional framework through which the reader is able to consider the history of capitalism, queerness, and studies of affect and emotion through the lens of fashion, advertising, and the model. … Brown’s work is unique in that it offers a narrative that sits uncomfortably between celebratory firsts for black models and gay photographers and the stereotyped messages inherently and, at times, unintentionally embedded within the fashion and advertising images." -- Jennie Woodard * History *"Across the book’s five chapters—each vividly illustrated—Brown looks at the proliferation of ways that female bodies could be displayed: in couture houses, on stage, in print advertisements, as part of Hollywood’s creation of glamour and in high-end fashion publications. At each juncture she explores the shifting relationship between desire and commerce, observing the 'de-eroticised, public sexuality embodied by those selling clothes, goods and ideals. Describing those models who performed a kind of 'material seduction'—one existing at a distance, alluring in its intangibility—Brown traces the subversive potential in the business of visual fantasy." -- Rosalind Jana * TLS *“The unique contribution of the book is the way the author weaves the narrative through the lens of affect theory while also engaging the history of capitalism.... The book is a breath of fresh air ... and I offer much applause to the author for undertaking this rigorous project.” -- Kelly L. Reddy-Best * Dress *“I would highly recommend Work! to anyone interested in fashion studies, identity studies, queer studies, feminism, African American studies, black studies, history of photography, or art history and visual culture.... Work! is a superbly crafted, refreshingly clear and indispensable new history of modelling.” -- Joy Sperling * Fashion, Style & Popular Culture *“With Work!, Elspeth H. Brown. . . has tied together the different strands of her intellectual expertise––queer and trans studies as well as affect theory––to take the reader on a mesmerizing journey through an until now uninvestigated queer history of fashion modeling.” -- Roberto Filippello * Fashion Theory *“Work! is a groundbreaking contribution to the study of histories of sexuality, gender, race, and the market.... Brown’s book is a fascinating must read because it provides a history for an industry that is ever present but also somehow discursively invisible.” -- Stefanie K. Dunning * Journal of African American History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Illustrations xiii Introduction 1 1. From the Artist's Model to the Photographic Model: Containing Sexuality in the Early Twentieth Century 25 2. Race, Sexuality, and the 1920s Stage Model 69 3. Queering Interwar Fashion: Photographers, Models, and the Queer Production of the "Look" 103 4. Black Models and the Invention of the US: "Negro Market," 1945-1960 163 5. "You've Got to Be Real": Constructing Femininity in the Long 1970s 211 Epilogue 271 Notes 277 Bibliography 313 Index 337
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