Defining Dress: Dress as Object, Meaning and Identity (Studies in Design) - Softcover

 
9780719053290: Defining Dress: Dress as Object, Meaning and Identity (Studies in Design)

Synopsis

Contained here is an attractive collection of essays, bringing together contemporary research into the history of dress. The essays reflect how garments may be researched as discrete objects, as part of consumer culture, and as components of created meaning which are expressive of personal identity and social belonging.

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About the Author

Amy De la Haye is Curator of Twentieth-Century Dress at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Elizabeth Wilson is Professor of Media Studies at the University of North London.

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ISBN 10:  0719053285 ISBN 13:  9780719053283
Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2000
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