fashions have changed in the last 200 years, as increasing industrialization has brought a greater range of garments and new fabrics, and traces the development of both ""haute couture"" and street style. Stunning detailed artwork on every page recreates clothes from Victorian crinolines and frock coats to miniskirts and sportswear."  (less)

development of a consumer society and the beginnings of couture, Ingres charted in his portraits how clothes were worn and what part they played in definitions of identity and status. This book explores for the first time the ways in which clothing, accessories, and fabrics define and display women in Ingres's portraits. With more than 150 illustrations that include the artist's portraits, fashion plates, portraits by contemporaries, and surviving items of costume, the book illuminates Ingres's work and its relation to the social and artistic discourse of his time.pEminent dress historian Aileen Ribeiro analyzes in detail Ingres's attitudes, his skill in depicting clothing, and how he portrays the real and idealized woman in his paintings and drawings of the fashionable mainstream -- the grandes dames of elite society, the newly opulent bourgeoisie, English visitors to Italy, and family and friends. Ribeiro also devotes a section of the book to the part played by textiles and accessories in Ingres's images of bathers and odalisques.  (less)

suits, headwear and hairdressing, ethnicity and so called ethnic chic, clothes for the tourist market, the politicization of traditional dress, alternative dressing, and T-shirts as temporary markers of identity. It also considers dress and environmental issues, touching on adventure gear, the green consumer and the possible impact of smart clothing.br/divDIVFrontispiece * Acknowledgements * List of Illustrations * Captions * Acknowledgements * Introduction * Theorising Global Dress * Dress and Global Sameness * Political Dress * Ethnic Dress or Fashionably 'Ethnic'? * Style and Communication * Headwear: Negotiating Meaning * What's the Alternative? * Clothing: Is there a Responsible Choice? * Bibliography * Indexbr/divDIVUsing excellent sources and inspiration from a range of disciplines, Margaret Maynard is able to build another major step in our understanding of current developments in 'world' dress, global dress and its manufacture and consumption. Her study of the political use of dress was especially fresh--as indeed is her text on the well worn topic of hair and headress.-- Lou Taylor, University of Brightonbr/divDIVbMargaret Maynard/bis Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.br/div  (less)

mid sixteenth century onwards, and explains the interest in dress collection and display both privately and in museums in Britain, France, the USA and Eastern Europe. Lou Taylor argues that only when women were permitted to be curators of dress within museums did the collection of all kinds of dress find its proper place in our museums of decorative arts, social history and ethnography. Chapters cover the current debates related to dress collecting in such institutions, including discussion of the return of sacred objects, the place of contemporary fashion within museums and issues of the commodification of collections and displays.br/divDIVAcknowledgements * Dedication * Introduction * The Foundation Stones: Dress History Publications from 1560-1900 * Dress History Debates from 1900 * Establishing Ethnographical Dress Collections from the Sixteenth Century * Establishing British Dress Collections of Fashionable Western Dress From the Mid-Nineteenth Century * The Development of Collections of Western Dress in France, the United States, and Eastern and Central Europe * Establishing Collections of European Peasant and Regional Dress * Collecting European Peasant and British Regional Dress in Museums in Britain * The Marriage of New Dress History and Dress Studies with New Museology and Critical Approaches * Conclusionbr/divDIVbLou Taylor/bis Professor of Dress and Textile History, University of Brighton.br/div  (less)

a better name, we may call the dawn of civilization. It is his hope that the young reader may find it interesting as well as instructive. Contents: The Thinkers: The Wandering Tribes; The Bronze Sword; The Magic Metal; The Water Clock; The Bright Rug; Silver Moon's Silk Dress; The Ox-Cart; The Valley of Clay; Making the Sun Work for Us; The Battering Ram; The Writing on the Walls; The Healers; The King's Messenger; The Traders; The Statue of the King; Slaves; The Golden Girdle; Gods and Men; Music; Numbers; and A Day in Egypt 4,000 Years Ago.  (less)

Kenneth Branagh, Tom Cruise, and Lyle Lovett. He founded the Personal Style and Image Development Consultancy with his wife, Kate Mayfield, which caters to corporate, private, and business clients internationally. He and Kate live in Los Angeles.bIntroduction/bbrbr"I have a closet overflowing with clothes -- but nothing I put on feels right for me. Every morning when I go to my closet to get dressed I just stand there and stare. I feel I have nothing to wear and I get upset. It's a terrible start to my day."br-- Janetbrbr"I know that my image is not up to par with the position I hold at my job. I want to look more successful."br-- Alanbrbr"A few days ago I wore my favorite jeans, and I felt and looked great in them. Only a couple of days later I put them on and they made me feel fat and I thought I looked terrible in them. What happened? What's going on?"br-- Christinebrbr"My husband and I fight about his clothes every weekend. He always looks like he doesn't care."br-- Vickybrbr"I hate shopping. I've gained some weight and nothing fits me anymore, and I feel self-conscious when I go shopping."br-- Jakebrbr"My children are no longer living at home, and I'm starting a new career. All of a sudden I have absolutely nothing to wear and no idea where to start."br-- Annabrbr"I have a pretty conservative dress code for business. How can I put my own stamp on my wardrobe without rocking the boat?"br-- Andrewbrbr"I'm too old to wear trendy and certainly not old enough to wear matronly. How can I look stylish and current on a reasonable budget?"br-- FranbrbrHow do you feel when you look in your clo@ÌÌÌÌÌÍÿ¾Û€  (less)

com­mercial speech, prior restraint, free press/fair trial, copyright and broadcast­ing as well as questions of media access./P/DIV/DIVDIVDIV“Thomas Tedford has [provided] the reader with a long-range perspective on what otherwise might seem to be iso­lated issues. His coverage of the subject is both comprehensive and concise—he wastes no words but omits nothing of significance. He has compressed a huge amount of material into digestible chunks of information, beautifully orga­nized into chapters each of which ad­dresses a major sub-division of the gen­eral topic. . . . And through it all, Tedford writes with clarity, style, and a sense of humor.”—BFranklyn S. Haiman/B, from the Foreword/DIV/DIVDIVP class=p3 style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0inBThomas L. Tedford/Bis Professor of Communication and Theatre, Univer­sity of North Carolina at Greensboro./P/DIV  (less)

to the house, making Liberty a world-recognized name. This account and celebration is divided into chronological sections. It begins with the early emporium and ends with a survey of the institution's influence on post-war aesthetics and design. The Arts and Crafts Movement found Liberty's associated with leading craftsmen-designers. After World War I its textiles continued the famous lines of prints. Now, in keeping with its role as innovator, the firm continues to commission designers and to promote both traditional and avant-garde furniture and artifacts. This history of a unique enterprise reflects in microcosm major developments in taste from the late 19th-century to the present.  (less)