Author : Amy De La Haye
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719053290
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (532 download)
Book Synopsis Defining Dress by : Amy De La Haye
Download or read book Defining Dress written by Amy De La Haye and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays brings together many separate but related issues which form the focus of contemporary research into the history of dress. Historically, in Britain at least, investigations of dress were primarily informed by historical and empirical protocols, although the symbolic meaning of dress was explored by anthroplogists and sociologists, who tended to concentrate on either non-Western cultures or British or Western sub-cultures. In recent years these approaches have moved closer together partly as a result of the impact of feminism.