Format:
1 Online-Ressource (341 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also available in print
ISBN:
0857710044
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9780755699506
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9781860649219
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9780857710048
Content:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Chapter 1 -- Introduction; Chapter 2 -- The History of Fashion; Chapter 3 -- Explaining It Away; Chapter 4 -- The Fashion Industry; Chapter 5 -- Fashion and Eroticism; Chapter 6 -- Gender and Identity; Chapter 7 -- Fashion and City Life; Chapter 8 -- Fashion and Popular Culture; Chapter 9 -- Oppositional Dress; Chapter 10 -- Utopian Dress and Dress Reform; Chapter 11 -- Feminism and Fascism; Chapter 12 -- Changing Times/Altered States; References; Bibliography; Index.
Content:
When ""Adorned in Dreams"" was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as 'the best I have read on the subject, bar none'. Elizabeth Wilson traces the social and cultural history of fashion and its complex relationship to modernity. Wilson delights in the power of fashion to mark out identity or to subvert it and this brand new edition of her book follows recent developments to bring the story of fashionable dress up to date, exploring the grunge look inspired by bands like Nirvana, the 'boho chic' of the mid 90's, retro-dressing and the meanings of dress from the veil to Bec
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Also available in print.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781860649219
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wilson, Elizabeth Adorned in Dreams : Fashion and Modernity London : I.B. Tauris, ©2010 ISBN 9781860649219
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755699506
