Title: The anatomy of fashion
Description: Taking different body parts in turn, this book invites us to view ourselves as we have been in the past. Arguing that analysis needs to aspire to the proliferation and playfulness of fashion itself, it both explores a different aesthetic and examines its implications. Whether in the mechanisms of production, the politics of consumption, the construction of sexuality or gender, or the formation and reformation of manners and morals, fashion is there.--[back cover].
Subjects: Body image, History, Social aspects, Fashion design, Human body, Costume design, Human body, social aspects, History of fashion