Re-orienting fashion
Subtitle: the globalization of Asian  dress
By: edited by  Sandra Niessen, Ann Marie Leshkowich, and Carla Jones.
Contributors: Niessen, S. A.; Leshkowich, Ann Marie.; Jones, Carla.
Series: Dress, body, culture,
Publisher: Berg; Berg Publishers
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Clothing and dress -- Asia; Fashion -- Asia; Clothing and dress -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the globalization of Asian dress: Re-orienting fashion or re-orientalizing Asia? / Carla Jones and Ann Marie Leshkowich; title: 1. Three scenarios from Batak clothing history: Designing participation in the global fashion trajectory 49 / Sandra Niessen; title: 2. The Ao Dai goes global: how international influences and female entrepreneurs have shaped Vietnam's "national costume" 79 / Ann Marie Leshkowich; title: 3. Korean alterations: nationalism, social consciousness, and "traditional" clothing 117 / Rebecca Ruhlen; title: 4. Designing diasporic markets: Asian  fashion entrepreneurs in London 139 / Parminder Bhachu; title: 5. National colors: ethnic minorities in Vietnamese  public imagery / Hjorleifur R. Jonsson and Nora A. Taylor; title: 6. Dress for sukses: fashioning femininity and nationality in urban Indonesia 185 / Carla Jones; title: 7. Fashion-nation: a Japanese globalization experience  and a Hong Kong dilemma 215 / Lise Skov; title: Afterword:  re-orienting fashion theory 243 / Sandra Niessen.