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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Amy De La Haye; Elizabeth Wilson |
ISBN: | 0719053285 9780719053283 0719053293 9780719053290 |
OCLC Number: | 606855810 |
Description: | xiii, 160 pages : illustrations. |
Contents: | 1. Introduction / Elizabeth Wilson and Amy De La Haye -- 2. Dashing Amazons: the development of women's riding dress, c. 1500-1900 / Janet Arnold -- 3. Wool cloth and gender: the use of woollen cloth in women's dress in Britain, 1865-85 / Lou Taylor -- 4. Renouncing consumption: men, fashion and luxury, 1870-1914 / Christopher Breward -- 5. That little magic touch: the headtie / Carol Tulloch -- 6. Religious dress in Italy in the late Middle Ages / Cordelia Warr -- 7. The mantua: its evolution and fashionable significance in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Avril Hart -- 8. Muses and mythology: classical dress in British eighteenth-century female portraiture / Aileen Ribeiro -- 9. Dressing for art's sake: Gwen John, the Bon Marche and the spectacle of the women artist in Paris / Alicia Foster -- 10. The aesthetics of absence: clothes without people in paintings / Juliet Ash -- 11. Invisible men: gay men's dress in Britain, 1950-70 / Shaun Cole. |
Series Title: | Studies in design and material culture. |
Responsibility: | edited by Amy de la Hay and Elizabeth Wilson. |
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