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| Genre/Form: | Cross-cultural studies Études transculturelles |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Re-orienting fashion. Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2003 (OCoLC)605952131 Online version: Re-orienting fashion. Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2003 (OCoLC)606943494 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
S A Niessen; Ann Marie Leshkowich; Carla Jones |
| ISBN: | 1859735347 9781859735343 1859735398 9781859735398 |
| OCLC Number: | 51293829 |
| Description: | xii, 283 p. : ill ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: the globalization of Asian dress: Re-orienting fashion or re-orientalizing Asia? / Carla Jones and Ann Marie Leshkowich -- 1. Three scenarios from Batak clothing history: Designing participation in the global fashion trajectory 49 / Sandra Niessen -- 2. The Ao Dai goes global: how international influences and female entrepreneurs have shaped Vietnam's "national costume" 79 / Ann Marie Leshkowich -- 3. Korean alterations: nationalism, social consciousness, and "traditional" clothing 117 / Rebecca Ruhlen -- 4. Designing diasporic markets: Asian fashion entrepreneurs in London 139 / Parminder Bhachu -- 5. National colors: ethnic minorities in Vietnamese public imagery / Hjorleifur R. Jonsson and Nora A. Taylor -- 6. Dress for sukses: fashioning femininity and nationality in urban Indonesia 185 / Carla Jones -- 7. Fashion-nation: a Japanese globalization experience and a Hong Kong dilemma 215 / Lise Skov -- Afterword: re-orienting fashion theory 243 / Sandra Niessen. |
| Series Title: | Dress, body, culture. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Sandra Niessen, Ann Marie Leshkowich, and Carla Jones. |
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'This is a very good book that will be read with great appreciation by people who understand the importance of fashion in the web of human society.'Fashion Theory 'This book will be useful to readers (or fashion theorists) who are interested in understanding globalization of Asian dress from anthropological, sociological, political and historical perspectives.'Myoung Kim, University of Wisconsin, in International Textile and Apparel Association newsletter (Jan 06) Read more...
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- Clothing and dress -- Asia.
- Fashion -- Asia.
- Clothing and dress -- Cross-cultural studies.
- Mode.
- Internationalisatie.
- Étude transculturelle.
- Vêtement.
- Mondialisation.
- Mode vestimentaire.
- Asie.
- Robes (Costume) -- Asie.
- Mode -- Asie.
- Vêtements -- Études transculturelles.
- Internationalisierung.
- Asien.
- Ostasien.
- Südostasien.
- Costume -- Asia.
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