Defining dress
Subtitle: dress as object, meaning, and identity
By: edited by Amy de la Haye and Elizabeth Wilson
Contributors: De La Haye, Amy; Wilson, Elizabeth, 1936-
Series: Studies in design and material culture
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Clothing and dress -- Social aspects; Costume -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Dashing Amazons : the development of women's riding dress, c.1500-1900 / Janet Arnold; title: Wool cloth and gender : the use of woollen cloth in women's dress in Britain, 1865-85 / Lou Taylor; title: Renouncing consumption : men, fashion, and luxury, 1870-1914 / Christopher Breward; title: That little magic touch : the headtie / Carol Tulloch; title: Religious dress in Italy in the late Middle Ages / Cordelia Warr; title: The mantua : its evolution and fashionable significance in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Avril Hart; title: Muses and mythology : classical dress in British eighteenth-century female portraiture / Aileen Ribeiro; title: Dressing for art's sake : Gwen John, the Bon Marché, and the spectacle of the woman artist in Paris / Alicia Foster; title: The aesthetics of absence : clothes without people in paintings / Juliet Ash; title: Invisible men : gay men's dress in Britain, 1950-70 / Shaun Cole