Dress Matters

Author : Emma Tarlo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226789767
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clothing Matters written by Emma Tarlo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do I wear today? The way we answer this question says much about how we manage and express our identities. This detailed study examines sartorial style in India from the late nineteenth century to the present, showing how trends in clothing are related to caste, level of education, urbanization, and a larger cultural debate about the nature of Indian identity. Clothes have been used to assert power, challenge authority, and instigate social change throughout Indian society. During the struggle for independence, members of the Indian elite incorporated elements of Western style into their clothes, while Gandhi's adoption of the loincloth symbolized the rejection of European power and the contrast between Indian poverty and British wealth. Similar tensions are played out today, with urban Indians adopting "ethnic" dress as villagers seek modern fashions. Illustrated with photographs, satirical drawings, and magazine advertisements, this book shows how individuals and groups play with history and culture as they decide what to wear.

Author : Frances Corner
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500772096
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Fashion Matters written by Frances Corner and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating introduction to the expanding influence of fashion from the perspectives of design, technology, sustainability, and business Fashion matters for the economy, to society, and to each of us personally. Faster than anything else, what we wear tells the story of who we are—or who we want to be. It is the most immediate form of self-expression. Yet even as fashion touches the lives of each and every one of us, its influence and the vast creative industry that it supports can seem mysterious to outsiders. In Why Fashion Matters Frances Corner, Head of London College of Fashion, guides readers into the dizzying world of this rapidly expanding, increasingly global, always exciting industry. In provocative and intriguing entries, Corner teases out the glorious intricacies and contradictions of an industry that simultaneously values technology and craft; timeless style and fast fashion; the bespoke and the mass-market; consumption and sustainability; cold, hard numbers; and creative expression. From “Shop 'til We Drop” to “The White Shirt” to “The One Trillion Dollar Business” each entry offers a unique avenue into fashion and its impact, both positive and negative, on lives around the globe.

Author : Craig Storti
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
ISBN 13 : 1473670306
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Travel Matters written by Craig Storti and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you travel, you have a choice: You can be a tourist and have a nice time, or you can be a traveler and change your life. Why Travel Matters is for those who want to change their lives. Why Travel Matters explores the profound life lessons that await anyone who wishes to learn what travel has to teach. With engaging prose, delightful wit and a distinctive style, Craig Storti infuses his own experiences traveling the world for 30-plus years with quotations, insights, reflections and commentary from famous travelers, great travel writers, historians and literary masters. Storti's vast knowledge of the literature makes him an expert curator of astute gems from the likes of St. Augustine, Mark Twain, Somerset Maugham, D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Chatwin, Aldous Huxley and more.

Author : Noemí Pereira-Ares
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319613979
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fashion, Dress and Identity in South Asian Diaspora Narratives written by Noemí Pereira-Ares and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first book-length study to explore the sartorial politics of identity in the literature of the South Asian diaspora in Britain. Using fashion and dress as the main focus of analysis, and linking them with a myriad of identity concerns, the book takes the reader on a journey from the eighteenth century to the new millennium, from early travel account by South Asian writers to contemporary British-Asian fictions. Besides sartorial readings of other key authors and texts, the book provides an in-depth exploration of Kamala Markandaya’s The Nowhere Man (1972), Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), Meera Syal’s Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee (1999) and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003).This work examines what an analysis of dress contributes to the interpretation of the featured texts, their contexts and identity politics, but it also considers what literature has added to past and present discussions on the South Asian dressed body in Br itain. Endowed with an interdisciplinary emphasis, the book is of interest to students and academics in a variety of fields, including literary criticism, socio-cultural studies and fashion theory.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1476 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dress & Vanity Fair written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julie Sasse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780911611427
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dress Matters written by Julie Sasse and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhibition catalog for Dress Matters: Clothing as Metaphor at the Tucson Museum of Art, October 18, 2017 - February 18, 2018

Author : Minister and co, ltd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gazette of fashion, and cutting-room companion [afterw.] Minister's gazette of fashion written by Minister and co, ltd and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce Ingham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136803246
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Languages of Dress in the Middle East written by Bruce Ingham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers how the languages of dress in the region connect with other social practices, and with political and religious conformity in particular. Treating cases as diverse as practices of veiling in Oman and dress reform laws in Turkey, these ethnographic studies extend from Malta to the ME and Caucasus.

Author : Great Britain. Patent Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subject-matter Index of Patents Applied for and Patents Granted written by Great Britain. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dana Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0735224013
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fashionopolis written by Dana Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry--and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement fighting to reform it from a bestselling journalist who has traveled the globe to discover the visionary designers and companies who are propelling the industry toward that more positive future.ture.