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Re-orienting fashion : the globalization of Asian dress

Author: S A Niessen; Ann Marie Leshkowich; Carla Jones
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2003.
Series: Dress, body, culture.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Cross-cultural studies
Études transculturelles
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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