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"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.

Title Dress history : new directions in theory and practice / edited by Charlotte Nicklas and Annebella Pollen.
Edition First edition.
Publisher London, England : Bloomsbury Academic
Distributor London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing
Creation Date 2020
Notes Also published in print.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content Introduction : Dress history now: terms, themes and tools / Charlotte Nicklas and Annebella Pollen -- Dress thinking: disciplines and indisciplinarity / Jonathan Faiers -- Gloves 'of the very thin sort': gifting Limerick gloves in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century / Liza Foley -- All out in the wash: convict stain removal in the Narryna Heritage Museum's dress collection / Jennifer Clynk and Sharon Peoples -- Traje de crioula: representing nineteenth-century Afro-Brazilian dress / Aline T. Monteiro Damgaard -- The empress's old clothes: biographies of African dress at the Victoria and Albert Museum / Nicola Stylianou -- Picturing the material/manifesting the visual: aesthetic dress in late-nineteenth-century British culture / Kimberly Wahl -- Dress, self-fashioning and display at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum / Christine M.E. Guth -- 'At once classical and modern': Raymond Duncan dress and textiles in the Royal Ontario Museum / Alexandra Palmer -- An 'unexpected pearl': gender and performativity in the public and private lives of London couturier Norman Hartnell / Jane Hattrick -- From Kays of Worcester to Vogue, Paris: the Women's Institute Magazine, rural life and fashionable dress in post-war Britain / Rachel Ritchie -- Radical shoemaking and dress reform from Fabians to feminists / Annebella Pollen -- Dress and textiles in transition: The sungudi sari revival of Tamilnadu, India / Kala Shreen.
Extent xvii, 215p.
ill. (come col).
Language English
National Library system number 997012132105005171
MARC RECORDS
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