Dress history : new directions in theory and practice /: new directions in theory and practice. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Charlotte Nicklas and Annebella Pollen.
• Editors: Nicklas, Charlotte; Pollen, Annebella
• Contents: Dress history now: terms, themes and tools -- Dress thinking: disciplines and indisciplinarity -- Gloves 'of the very thin sort': gifting Limerick gloves in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- All out in the wash: convict stain removal in the Narryna Heritage Museum's dress collection -- Traje de crioula: representing nineteenth-centry Afro-Brazilian dress -- The empress's old clothes: biographies of African dress at the VIctoria and Albert Museum -- Picturing the material/manifesting the visual: aesthetic dress in late-nineteenth-century British culture -- Dress, self-fashioning and display at thet Isabella Stewart Garden Museum -- 'At once classical and modern': Raymond Duncan dress and textiles in the Royal Ontario Museum -- An 'unexpected pearl': gender and performativity in the public and private lives of London couturier Norman Hartnell -- From Kays of Worcester to Vogue, Paris: the Women's Institute magazine, rural life and fashionable dress in post-war Britain -- Radical shoemaking and dress reform from Fabians to feninists -- Dress and textiles in transition: the sungudi sari revival of Tamilnadu, India.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 215 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 391.009; Fashion & textiles: design; Clothing and dress -- History; Fashion design -- History; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions; Clothing and dress; Fashion design; Kleidung; Mode; Design; Kultur; History of fashion; History -- General; Design -- Fashion; Design -- Textile & Costume; Fashion & society; Electronic books; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474240512; 1474240518; 9781474240529; 1474240526; 9780857855411; 0857855417; 9780857856401; 0857856405
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.