Fashion history
Subtitle: a global view
By: Linda Welters and Abby Lillethun
Contributors: Lillethun, Abby, author
Series: Dress, body, culture; Dress, body, culture
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781474253635; 9781474254762
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Fashion; History
Description: "Fashion History: A Global View proposes a new perspective on fashion history. Arguing that fashion has occurred in cultures beyond the West throughout history, this groundbreaking book explores the geographic places and historical spaces that have been largely neglected by contemporary fashion studies, bringing them together for the first time. Reversing the dominant narrative that privileges Western Europe in the history of dress, Welters and Lillethun adopt a cross-cultural approach to explore a vast array of cultures around the globe. They explore key issues affecting fashion systems, ranging from innovation, production and consumption to identity formation and the effects of colonization. Case studies include the cross-cultural trade of silk textiles in Central Asia, the indigenous dress of the Americas and of Hawai'i, the cosmetics of the Tang Dynasty in China, and stylistic innovation in sub-Saharan Africa. Examining the new lessons that can be deciphered from archaeological findings and theoretical advancements, the book shows that fashion history should be understood as a global phenomenon, originating well before and beyond the fourteenth century European court, which is continually, and erroneously, cited as fashion's birthplace. Providing a fresh framework for fashion history scholarship, Fashion History: A Global View will inspire inclusive dress narratives for students and scholars of fashion, anthropology, and cultural studies"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-214) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Europe and the people without fashion; title: Part 1. Understanding fashion and its history. The lexicon of fashion; title: Fashion systems; title: How we got here; title: Part 2. Outside the canon: alternative fashion histories. Fashion systems in prehistory and the Americas; title: Fashion systems and trade networks in the Eastern hemisphere; title: Fashion systems in East, South, and Southeast Asia; title: Alternative fashion histories in Euro-America; title: Global fashion; title: Conclusion.