Dress, fashion, and technology : from prehistory to the present /: from prehistory to the present. (2015 copyright 2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Phyllis G. Tortora.
• Other Names: Tortora, Phyllis G
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: Connecting Technology, Dress, And Fashion Part I, Before the Revolution, Chapter 2: Dress And The Technologies Of Prehistory (Upper Paleolithic To The Neolithic Period) Chapter 3: Technologies And Dress In Towns, Cities And Empires (Neolithic Period To C. 500 C.E.) Chapter 4: Technology And Dress Facilitate Fashion Change (Dark Ages to The Seventeenth Century in Europe) Chapter 5: Chapter 5: Some Asian Developments in Technology, Dress and Fashion (End of the Neolithic Period until the 17th Century) Part II: The Industrial Revolution and First Steps Toward the Fashion Industry Chapter 6: Dress And Fashion Move The Industrial Revolution Forward (18th Century) Chapter 7: The Central Role Of Dress And Fashion In The Industrial Revolution (c. 1800 to 1860) Chapter 8: Dress, Fashion And Social Changes Follow The Industrial Revolution (Nineteenth Century Chapter 9: Tools That Enable Fashion Change And Innovations In Dress (19th century) Part III, The Fashion Industry is Born Chapter 10: Tools And Processes Expand Options For Dress And Fashion (20th and 21st centuries) Chapter 11: Chapter 11: Transportation And Its Effects (20th and 21st centuries) Chapter 12: The Effects Of Sports (19th to the 21st centuries) Chapter 13 Communications Technologies That Disseminate Fashion Information (19th to the 21st centuries) Part IV, High Tech Enters Chapter 14 Chapter 14:Technology Contributes To The Globalization Of Fashion (20th and 21st centuries) Chapter 15: Environments Interact With Technologies (20th and 21st centuries) Chapter 16 New Technological Frontiers For Dress And Fashion (21st century) References Acknowledgements.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (264 pages)
• Subjects: 746.9/2; Fashion & society; Fashion design -- History; Clothing and dress -- History; Tailoring -- History; DESIGN / Fashion; DESIGN / History & Criticism; Design -- Fashion; Design -- History & Criticism; History of fashion
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857851932; 0857851934
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