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Dress history : new directions in theory and practice / edited by Charlotte Nicklas and Annebella Pollen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London, UK ; New York, NY, USA: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.Description: xvii, 215 pages ; illustrations (some colour), 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780857856401
  • 0857856405
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 391 NIC
Contents:
Introduction : Dress history now: terms, themes and tools / Charlotte Nicklas and Annebella Pollen -- Dress thinking: disciplines and indisciplinarity / Jonathan Faiers -- Gloves \'of the very thin sort\': gifting Limerick gloves in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century / Liza Foley -- All out in the wash: convict stain removal in the Narryna Heritage Museum\'s dress collection / Jennifer Clynk and Sharon Peoples -- Traje de crioula: representing nineteenth-century Afro-Brazilian dress / Aline T. Monteiro Damgaard -- The empress\'s old clothes: biographies of African dress at the Victoria and Albert Museum / Nicola Stylianou -- Picturing the material/manifesting the visual: aesthetic dress in late-nineteenth-century British culture / Kimberly Wahl -- Dress, self-fashioning and display at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum / Christine M.E. Guth -- \'At once classical and modern\': Raymond Duncan dress and textiles in the Royal Ontario Museum / Alexandra Palmer -- An \'unexpected pearl\': gender and performativity in the public and private lives of London couturier Norman Hartnell / Jane Hattrick -- From Kays of Worcester to Vogue, Paris: the Women\'s Institute Magazine, rural life and fashionable dress in post-war Britain / Rachel Ritchie -- Radical shoemaking and dress reform from Fabians to feminists / Annebella Pollen -- Dress and textiles in transition: The sungudi sari revival of Tamilnadu, India / Kala Shreen.
Summary: The field of dress history has experienced exponential growth over the past two decades. This in-depth investigation examines the expanding borders and porous boundaries of the discipline today, outlining key debates and showcasing the most exciting research. With international case studies from a wide range of scholars, the volume encompasses work from a variety of historical periods from the late 18th century to the present day. Thematically structured, contributors examine, critique and expand the methodologies and sources used in fashion history, analyse how dress is collected, displayed and sold, and investigate clothing\'s meanings and uses in the practice of identity. Exploring overlooked territories and new approaches to analysis, the book offers students and scholars a fresh appraisal of dress history in the 21st century-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The field of dress history has experienced exponential growth over the past two decades. This in-depth investigation examines the expanding borders and porous boundaries of the discipline today, outlining key debates and showcasing the most exciting research.With international case studies from a wide range of scholars, the volume encompasses work from a variety of historical periods from the late 18th century to the present day. Contributors examine, critique and expand the methodologies and sources used in fashion history, analyse how dress is collected, displayed and sold, and investigate clothing's meanings and uses in the practice of identity.Exploring overlooked territories and new approaches to analysis, the book offers students and scholars a fresh appraisal of dress history in the 21st century.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Dress history now: terms, themes and tools / Charlotte Nicklas and Annebella Pollen -- Dress thinking: disciplines and indisciplinarity / Jonathan Faiers -- Gloves \'of the very thin sort\': gifting Limerick gloves in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century / Liza Foley -- All out in the wash: convict stain removal in the Narryna Heritage Museum\'s dress collection / Jennifer Clynk and Sharon Peoples -- Traje de crioula: representing nineteenth-century Afro-Brazilian dress / Aline T. Monteiro Damgaard -- The empress\'s old clothes: biographies of African dress at the Victoria and Albert Museum / Nicola Stylianou -- Picturing the material/manifesting the visual: aesthetic dress in late-nineteenth-century British culture / Kimberly Wahl -- Dress, self-fashioning and display at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum / Christine M.E. Guth -- \'At once classical and modern\': Raymond Duncan dress and textiles in the Royal Ontario Museum / Alexandra Palmer -- An \'unexpected pearl\': gender and performativity in the public and private lives of London couturier Norman Hartnell / Jane Hattrick -- From Kays of Worcester to Vogue, Paris: the Women\'s Institute Magazine, rural life and fashionable dress in post-war Britain / Rachel Ritchie -- Radical shoemaking and dress reform from Fabians to feminists / Annebella Pollen -- Dress and textiles in transition: The sungudi sari revival of Tamilnadu, India / Kala Shreen.

The field of dress history has experienced exponential growth over the past two decades. This in-depth investigation examines the expanding borders and porous boundaries of the discipline today, outlining key debates and showcasing the most exciting research. With international case studies from a wide range of scholars, the volume encompasses work from a variety of historical periods from the late 18th century to the present day. Thematically structured, contributors examine, critique and expand the methodologies and sources used in fashion history, analyse how dress is collected, displayed and sold, and investigate clothing\'s meanings and uses in the practice of identity. Exploring overlooked territories and new approaches to analysis, the book offers students and scholars a fresh appraisal of dress history in the 21st century-- Provided by publisher.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of illustrations (p. ix)
  • Preface (p. xiii)
  • Notes on contributors (p. xv)
  • Introduction: Dress history now: terms, themes and tools (p. 1)
  • 1 Dress thinking; disciplines and indisciplinarity (p. 15)
  • 2 Gloves 'of the very thin sort': gifting Limerick gloves in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (p. 33)
  • 3 All out in the wash: convict stain removal in the Narryna Heritage Museum's dress collection (p. 49)
  • 4 Traje de crioula: representing nineteenth-century (p. 65)
  • 5 The empress's old clothes: biographies of African dress at the Victoria and Albert Museum (p. 81)
  • 6 Picturing the material/manifesting the visual: aesthetic dress in late-nineteenth-century British culture (p. 97)
  • 7 Dress, self-fashioning and display at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Christine (p. 113)
  • 8 'At once classical and modem': Raymond Duncan dress and textiles in the Royal Ontario Museum (p. 127)
  • 9 An 'unexpected pearl': gender and performativity in the public and private lives of London couturier Norman Hartnell (p. 145)
  • 10 From Kays of Worcester to Vogue, Paris: the Women's Institute magazine, rural life and fashionable dress in post-war Britain (p. 161)
  • 11 Radical shoemaking and dress reform from Fabians to feminists (p. 179)
  • 12 Dress and textiles in transition: the sungudi sari revival of Tamilnadu, India (p. 195)
  • Index (p. 209)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Charlotte Nicklas is Senior Lecturer in History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton, UK.
Annebella Pollen is Principal Lecturer in History of Art and Design and Director of Historical and Critical Studies at the University of Brighton, UK.

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