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Fashion foundations : early writings on fashion and dress /

Contributor(s): Series: Dress, body, culturePublication details: Oxford ; New York : Berg Publishers, 2003.Description: ix, 156 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1859736149
  • 185973619X
  • 9781859736142
  • 9781859736197
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Contents:
PART 1 : Dressing the Body -- Origins and Motives -- Origins and Motives Of the Custom of Wearing Clothes / Michel de Montaigne -- Significance of Clothes / Sylvia H. Bliss -- Dress / Alfred E. Crawley -- Customs and Beliefs: Ceremonial / Alfred R. Radcliffe-Brown -- Dress / Ruth Bendict -- Costumes and Ideologies / Hilaire Hiler and Meyer Hiler -- Physical Connections between the Body and Dress -- Psychology of Clothing / George Van Ness Dearborn -- Microcosmus: An Essay Concerning Man and His Relation to the World / Hermann Lotze -- Some Aspects of the Early Sense of Self / G. Stanley Hall -- Health Issues and Dress Reform -- Fashion in Deformity / William Henry Flower -- Science of Dress / Ada S. Ballin -- Reform Dress / Amelia Bloomer -- Development and Function of Clothing / Knight Dunlap -- PART 2 : Fashioning Identity -- Establishing Identity -- On Fashion / William Hazlitt -- Let Us Have a National Costume / Mary E. Fry -- Psychology of Women's Dress / William I. Thomas -- Appearance Management -- Remarks on the Psychology of Clothes / Louis W. Flaccus -- Psychology of Dress / Grace Margaret Morton -- PART 3 : The "F" Word -- Fashion as Change -- Development in Dress / George H. Darwin -- Badges and Costumes / Herbert Spencer -- Fashion / Georg Simmel -- Motivation in Fashion / Elizabeth Hurlock -- Fashion / Edward Sapir -- Some Conclusions / James Laver -- Predicting Fashion Change -- On the Nature of Fashion / Agnes Brooks Young -- Fashion as Collective and Consumer Behavior -- Fashion Movements / Herbert Blumer -- Of the Influence of Custom and Fashion upon our Notions of Beauty and Deformity / Adam Smith -- Economic Theory of Woman's Dress / Thorstein B. Veblen -- Dress as an Expression of Pecuniary Culture / Thorstein B. Veblen -- Psychological Analysis of Fashion Motivation / Estelle de Young Barr -- Chronological Annotated Bibliography (1575-1940).
Review: "This text reprints classic fashion writings of which have had a profound if perhaps untrumpted impact on our understanding and approach to modern day dress - from the psychology of clothes through to collective fashion trends."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-151) and index.

PART 1 : Dressing the Body -- Origins and Motives -- Origins and Motives Of the Custom of Wearing Clothes / Michel de Montaigne -- Significance of Clothes / Sylvia H. Bliss -- Dress / Alfred E. Crawley -- Customs and Beliefs: Ceremonial / Alfred R. Radcliffe-Brown -- Dress / Ruth Bendict -- Costumes and Ideologies / Hilaire Hiler and Meyer Hiler -- Physical Connections between the Body and Dress -- Psychology of Clothing / George Van Ness Dearborn -- Microcosmus: An Essay Concerning Man and His Relation to the World / Hermann Lotze -- Some Aspects of the Early Sense of Self / G. Stanley Hall -- Health Issues and Dress Reform -- Fashion in Deformity / William Henry Flower -- Science of Dress / Ada S. Ballin -- Reform Dress / Amelia Bloomer -- Development and Function of Clothing / Knight Dunlap -- PART 2 : Fashioning Identity -- Establishing Identity -- On Fashion / William Hazlitt -- Let Us Have a National Costume / Mary E. Fry -- Psychology of Women's Dress / William I. Thomas -- Appearance Management -- Remarks on the Psychology of Clothes / Louis W. Flaccus -- Psychology of Dress / Grace Margaret Morton -- PART 3 : The "F" Word -- Fashion as Change -- Development in Dress / George H. Darwin -- Badges and Costumes / Herbert Spencer -- Fashion / Georg Simmel -- Motivation in Fashion / Elizabeth Hurlock -- Fashion / Edward Sapir -- Some Conclusions / James Laver -- Predicting Fashion Change -- On the Nature of Fashion / Agnes Brooks Young -- Fashion as Collective and Consumer Behavior -- Fashion Movements / Herbert Blumer -- Of the Influence of Custom and Fashion upon our Notions of Beauty and Deformity / Adam Smith -- Economic Theory of Woman's Dress / Thorstein B. Veblen -- Dress as an Expression of Pecuniary Culture / Thorstein B. Veblen -- Psychological Analysis of Fashion Motivation / Estelle de Young Barr -- Chronological Annotated Bibliography (1575-1940).

"This text reprints classic fashion writings of which have had a profound if perhaps untrumpted impact on our understanding and approach to modern day dress - from the psychology of clothes through to collective fashion trends."--Jacket.

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