description: Contained here is an attractive collection of essays, bringing together contemporary research into the history of dress. The essays reflect how garments may be researched as discrete objects, as part of consumer culture, and as components of created meaning which are expressive of personal identity and social belonging.
language: English
title: Defining Dress: Dress as Object, Meaning and Identity
titlecomplete: Defining Dress: Dress as Object, Meaning and Identity (Studies in Design)
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Manchester University Press