Establishing Dress History (Studies in Design) - Softcover

Taylor, Lou

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719066395 ISBN 13: 9780719066399

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2004

Synopsis

This book, the sister publication to The Study of Dress History, is the first to detail the history of the collection, exhibition and museum interpretation of dress of all kinds. It examines the earliest European developments in dress history from the mid sixteenth century onwards, and explains the interest in dress collection and display both privately and in museums in Britain, France, the USA and Eastern Europe. Lou Taylor argues that only when women were permitted to be curators of dress within museums did the collection of all kinds of dress find its proper place in our museums of decorative arts, social history and ethnography. Chapters cover the current debates related to dress collecting in such institutions, including discussion of the return of sacred objects, the place of contemporary fashion within museums and issues of the commodification of collections and displays.

About this title

About the Author:

Lou Taylor is Professor of Dress and Textile History, University of Brighton.

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0719066395
• ISBN 13: 9780719066399
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340