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On The Button
The Significance of an Ordinary Item

I.B. Tauris
What do you use every day that is small and large, worthless and beyond price? It's easily found in the gutter, yet you may never be able to replace it. You...
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Glamour
Women, History, Feminism

Zed Books
In this lavishly illustrated book, author Carol Dyhouse surveys the world of glamour from early Hollywood right up to Madonna. She deftly unpacks the...
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Fashion Statements
On Style, Appearance, and Reality

Palgrave Macmillan
Fashion Statements presents an eclectic array of essays regarding the meanings of fashion to articulate the new directions of an everyday cultural phenomenon. ...
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Dressing for Heaven
Religious Clothing in Italy, 1215-1545

Manchester University Press
What do we wear after we die? Do we need clothing in the afterlife? If we do have clothing will these clothes bear any relationship to those which we own and...
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Hollywood Catwalk
Exploring Costume and Transformation in American Film

I.B. Tauris
The High School outsider takes off her glasses, puts on a dress, and becomes the Prom Queen; the dowdy woman has her hair done, buys some chic new clothes and...
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The Subversive Stitch
Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine

I.B. Tauris
Rozsika Parker's now classic re-evaluation of the reciprocal relationship between women and embroidery has brought stitchery out from the private world of...
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Dress Behind Bars
Prison Clothing as Criminality

I.B. Tauris
From nineteenth-century broad arrows and black and white stripes to twenty first-century orange jumpsuits, prison clothing has both mirrored and bolstered the...
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Fashioning the City
Paris, Fashion and the Media

I.B. Tauris
While much attention has been paid to the making of Paris in the work of writers and artists, little is known about the city as defined and created by the...
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Mastering Fashion Marketing

Palgrave Macmillan
This is the first book that combines contemporary marketing theory with analysis of operational marketing practice within the fashion industry. It contains the...
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Appearance and Identity
Fashioning the Body in Postmodernity

Palgrave Macmillan
This book critically examines recent theories of fashion which have sought to legitimize its pleasures and defend it as an avenue for self-expression. Through...

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Clothing the Spanish Empire

Palgrave Macmillan
Clothing the Spanish Empire narrates the lives of families on both sides of the Atlantic who profited from the craze for calicoes, and in doing so helped the...