The culture of fashion

A New History of Fashionable Dress

By: Christopher Breward

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Paperback | 2 March 1995

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This illustrated survey of 600 years of fashion investigates its cultural and social meanings from medieval Europe to 20th-century America. It provides a guide to the changes in style and taste, and challenges existing fashion histories, showing that clothes have always played a pivotal role in defining a sense of identity and society, especially when concerned with sexual and body politics. With a chronological structure, each chapter focuses on both male and female fashion of a specific period, covering its fascinating developments. It discusses: andrognous dressing; body piercing; fabrics, clothing and the rise of city life; dress, and the changing shape of the human body; controversies surrounding trousers and leg wear for both men and women; exposure of flesh; fashion and social status; and the dissemination of fashion through travel, film, magazines and catwalk shows.

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List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
General editor's foreword
Introduction	p. 1
Medieval period: fashioning the body	p. 7
Renaissance: the rhetoric of power	p. 41
Seventeenth century: clothing and crisis	p. 75
Eighteenth century: clothing and commerce	p. 109
Nineteenth century: fashion and modernity	p. 145
Early twentieth century: clothing the masses	p. 181
Late twentieth century: catwalk and street style	p. 225
Select bibliography	p. 237
Index	p. 242
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.

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