Re-orienting fashion : the globalization of Asian dress /
Series: Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2003.Description: xii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:- 1859735347
- 9781859735343
- 1859735398
- 9781859735398
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Whitecliffe Library General Shelves | General | GT 1370 REO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0008598 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.