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Clothing occupies a complex and important position in relation to human experience. It gives form to society's ideas about the sacred and secular, about exclusion and inclusion, about age, beauty, sexuality and status. This title explores the meanings that garments held in early modern England.

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Clothing occupies a complex and important position in relation to human experience. It gives form to society's ideas about the sacred and secular, about exclusion and inclusion, about age, beauty, sexuality and status. This title explores the meanings that garments held in early modern England.

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For ninety years, young society women in San Antonio, Texas have donned custom-designed dresses and trains to take part in the Coronation of a queen and her court. This book presents a study of social elites in Western society through a material culture analysis of the Coronation costumes worn by the Euro-American debutantes.

This text presents a compendium of the diverse ways in which Native Americans expressed beauty and cultural beliefs through their dress.

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A concise and systematic exploration of 150 distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States.

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Traces the history of fans from biblical times to the present day.

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Bringing together original, cutting-edge contributions from leading international scholars across a range of disciplines, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in exploring the intersections and changing relationship between fashion and art, past and present.

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Providing a convenient and unique look at fashion and costume literature and how it has developed historically, this volume discusses monographic and reference literature and provides information on periodicals, research centers, and costume museums and collections.

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"Offers a way of understanding why people dress the way they do and what meanings we ascribe to particular fashion styles. Designed to provide a theoretical introduction to fashion and style to meet the needs of both fashion and cultural studies students"--

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Drawing on key modernist texts as well as fashion theory and practice, this book seeks broadly to cover the history of fashion and modernity, a topic that has been surprisingly overlooked.

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Drawing on key modernist texts as well as fashion theory and practice, this book seeks broadly to cover the history of fashion and modernity, a topic that has been surprisingly overlooked.

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The first book to bring together music and fashion and situate both within the context of popular culture.

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The first book to bring together music and fashion and situate both within the context of popular culture.

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The book deals with fashion as a form of visual culture embodied through signs. It reproduces itself with a pattern based on the semiotic network of places, social practices and forms of imagery.

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Marks Spencer is an institution synonymous with quality, reliability and customer care. But do we associate it with 'fashion' Drawing on company archives, this book considers the company's contribution to British - and, since the 1970s, international - fashion. It discusses how, from the 1920s, Marks Spencer brought fashion to the high street.

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Marks Spencer is an institution synonymous with quality, reliability and customer care. But do we associate it with 'fashion' Drawing on company archives, this book considers the company's contribution to British - and, since the 1970s, international - fashion. It discusses how, from the 1920s, Marks Spencer brought fashion to the high street.