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Adorned in dreams : fashion and modernity / Elizabeth Wilson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : I.B. Tauris, 2003.Edition: [Rev. and updated ed.]Description: xi, 328 p. : illISBN:
  • 9781860649219
  • 9781860649219
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Introduction -- The history of fashion -- Explaining it away -- The fashion industry -- Fashion and eroticism -- Gender and identity -- Fashion and city life -- Fashion and popular culture -- Oppositional dress -- Utopian dress and dress reform -- Feminism and fashion -- Changing times/altered states
Summary: From haute-couture to haberdashery, 'deviant' dress to Dior, Elizabeth Wilson traces the social & cultural history of fashion & its complex relationship to modernity. She discusses fashion's opponents & in this new edition she follows recent developments through grunge, boho chic & retro-dressing.
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First published in 1985.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The history of fashion -- Explaining it away -- The fashion industry -- Fashion and eroticism -- Gender and identity -- Fashion and city life -- Fashion and popular culture -- Oppositional dress -- Utopian dress and dress reform -- Feminism and fashion -- Changing times/altered states

From haute-couture to haberdashery, 'deviant' dress to Dior, Elizabeth Wilson traces the social & cultural history of fashion & its complex relationship to modernity. She discusses fashion's opponents & in this new edition she follows recent developments through grunge, boho chic & retro-dressing.

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