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  • The Fashion in Shrouds

    by Margery Allingham ...
    series The Albert Campion Mysteries
    A custom-made killer shocks the fashionable London set in “one of the finest murder books ever written” featuring gentleman sleuth Albert Campion (The New Yorker).Albert Campion’s sister is a success in her own right. A top fashion designer, she works for a legendary couturier and dresses Georgia Wells, the best-dressed actress in the world. Albert also has a connection to Georgia, but his is ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen

    by Sarah Jane Downing ...
    Book 583 - Shire Library
    The broader Regency period 1795 to 1820, stands alone as an incredible moment in fashion history, unlike anything that went before it. For the first time England became a fashion influence, especially for menswear, and became the toast of Paris, as court dress became secondary to the season-by-season flux of fashion as we know it today. Sarah Jane Downing explores the fashion revolution and the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Fashion in the 1940s

    by Jayne Shrimpton ...
    Book 784 - Shire Library
    This book reveals the impact of wartime and austerity on British fashion and tells the story of how a spirit of patriotism and make-do-and-mend unleashed a wave of new creativity among women who were starved of high fashion by shortages and rationing. Many home dressmakers copied the high-end looks, and women involved in war work created a whole new aesthetic of less formal street wear. Fashion in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Fashion in all dimensions

    by Edona Misiri ...
    A guide for you who love to always be fashionable and to get to the top of a fashionable lifestyle. To you who like fashion but have not found yet the right path to arrive in a life full of Vogue. To you who do not perceive fashion and you think it is just a world of appearance, maybe this guide book will show you this famous world of fashion in another context.Enjoy it! With love, Edona. ... Read more

    $7.43 USD

  • Fashion in European Art

    Dress and Identity, Politics and the Body, 1775-1925

    Edited by Justine De Young ...
    series Dress Cultures
    Fashion reveals not only who we are, but whom we aspire to be. From 1775 to 1925, artists in Europe were especially attuned to the gaps between appearance and reality, participating in and often critiquing the making of the self and the image. Reading their portrayals of modern life with an eye to fashion and dress reveals a world of complex calculations and subtle signals. Extensively illustrated ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Fashion in the 1950s

    by Daniel Milford-Cottam ...
    Book 730 - Shire Library
    More than a footnote to the Second World War, or a foreword to the youth-obsessed exhilaration of the Sixties, the Fifties was a thrilling decade devoted to newness and freshness. The British people, rebuilding their lives and wardrobes, demanded modern materials, vibrant patterns and exciting prints inspired by scientific discoveries and modern art. Despite the influence of glamorous Paris ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Fashion in the 1960s

    by Daniel Milford-Cottam ...
    Book 875 - Shire Library
    Perhaps more so than any other decade, the sixties had the broadest impact on the twentieth-century Western world. Across society, culture and the arts, youth voices rose to prominence and had a significant influence on new trends. Mature polished elegance was replaced by young liveliness as the fashionable ideal. Although only the most daring young followers of fashion wore the tiny miniskirts ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Empire of Style

    Silk and Fashion in Tang China

    by BuYun Chen ...
    Tang dynasty (618–907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang’an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via the Silk Road with the critical markets and thriving cultures of Central Asia and the Middle East. In Empire of Style, BuYun Chen reveals a vibrant fashion system that emerged through the efforts of Tang artisans, wearers, and critics of clothing. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Empire

    Edited by Denise Amy Baxter ...
    series The Cultural Histories Series
    During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the production of dress shifted dramatically from being predominantly hand-crafted in small quantities to machine-manufactured in bulk. The increasing democratization of appearances made new fashions more widely available, but at the same time made the need to differentiate social rank seem more pressing.In this age of empire, the coding of class ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Cultural Shock-Taiwan

    Cow Mentality, Rubber Slipper Fashion in Binlang Country

    by Dr. Georg Woodman ...
    Its a social statement; exposing the cultural bondage to traditions over common sense, logic and 21st-century-order. The obvious ineffectiveness of government, the lackadaisical enforcements of rules and laws, the selfishness of the individual superseding social orders. The beyond-time mentality over the salvages of most modern innovations - all in total contrast to the other. The daily lifes ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Clothing and Fashion in Southern History

    by Jonathan Prude ...
    Contributions by Grace Elizabeth Hale, Katie Knowles, Ted Ownby, Jonathan Prude, William Sturkey, Susannah Walker, Becca Walton, and Sarah Jones WeickselFashion studies have long centered on the art and preservation of finely rendered garments of the upper class, and archival resources used in the study of southern history have gaps and silences. Yet, little study has been given to the approach of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Borderless Fashion Practice

    Contemporary Fashion in the Metamodern Age

    by Vanessa Gerrie ...
    Twenty-first century fashion practice has become increasingly borderless and diverse in the digital era, calling into question the very boundaries that define fashion in the Western cultural context. Borderless Fashion Practice: Contemporary Fashion in the Metamodern Age principally engages the work of four fashion designers -- Virgil Abloh, Aitor Throup, Iris Van Herpen, and Eckhaus Latta -- ... Read more

    $27.99 USD