The Study of Dress History

Lou Taylor, Christopher Breward, Bill Sherman , Bethan Hirst

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English

Manchester University Press
21 February 2002

Fashion design & theory; History: specific events & topics; Fashion & society

Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture

Over the past ten years the study of dress history has finally achieved academic respectability. This book shows how the fields of dress history and dress studies are now benefitting from the adoption of new multi-disciplinary approaches and outlines the full range of these approaches which draw on material culture, ethnography, and cultural studies. Raises a series of frank and fresh issues surrounding approaches to the history of dress, including analysis of the academic gender and subject divides that have riven it in the past. Comprehensive, engaging and trenchant, this will become the benchmark volume in the study of dress history. -- .

By: Lou Taylor
Series edited by: Christopher Breward, Bill Sherman
Other: Bethan Hirst
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 653g
ISBN: 9780719040658
ISBN 10: 0719040655
Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 21 February 2002
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. Artefact-based approaches: collection, identification, conservation 2. Artefact-based approaches: display and interpretation 3. Approaches based on social, economic history, material culture and cultural studies 4. Approaches using literary sources 5. Approaches using visual analysis: paintings, drawings and cartoons 6. Approaches using visual analysis of photography and film 7. Ethnographical approaches 8. Approaches using oral history Conclusion -- .

Lou Taylor is Professor of Dress and Textile History at the University of Brighton and author of Mourning Dress: a costume and social history (1983) and, with Elizabeth Wilson, Through the looking glass (1989)