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Title: A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Modern Age
Condition: New
EAN: 9780857856029
ISBN: 9780857856029
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Hardback
Type: Hardback
Release Date: 01/11/2018
Item Height: 244mm
Item Length: 169mm
Item Weight: 670g
Contributor: Alexandra Palmer (Edited by)
Author: Alexandra Palmer
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0857856022
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Book Series: Cultural Histories Series
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Arts & Photography, Fashion & Design
Release Year: 2018
Description: Over the last century there has been a complete transformation of the fashion system. The unitary top-down fashion cycle has been replaced by the pulsations of multiple and simultaneous styles, while the speed of global production and circulation has become ever faster and more complex. Running in tandem, the development of artificial fibres has revolutionized the composition of clothing, and the increased focus on youth, sexuality, and the body has radically changed its design. From the 1920s flapper dress to debates over the burkini, fashion has continued to be deeply involved in society’s larger issues.Drawing on a wealth of visual, textual and object sources and illustrated with 100 images, A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Modern Age presents essays on textiles, production and distribution, the body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, and visual and literary representations to illustrate the diversity and cultural significance of dress and fashion in the period.

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