Skip to main content
Search Button

Rakuten Kobo

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“professor clair hughes”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “professor clair hughes”
Skip side bar filters

  • Hats

    by Professor Clair Hughes ...
    Although a hat may be designed for the purpose of practicality or aesthetics, it is part of a complex interplay of wider cultural meanings. Throughout history hats have played a significant role in expressing and revealing notions of class, gender, authority, fashion and etiquette. By examining the consumption and production of hats from the 18th century to the present day, this book explores ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • The Dictionary of Fashion History

    by C. W. Cunnington, P. E. Cunnington, Ms Valerie Cumming ...
    - What is an earthquake gown?- Who wore eelskin masher trousers?- What did the word "dudes" mean in the 16th century?A Dictionary of English Costume by C. Willett Cunnington, Phillis Cunnington and Charles Beard was originally published in 1960. A monumental achievement and encyclopaedic in scope, it was a comprehensive catalogue of fashion terms from the mid-medieval period up to 1900. It was ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • How to Draw Like a Fashion Illustrator

    Skills and techniques to develop your visual style

    by Robyn Neild ...
    This step-by-step guide provides an insight into how to illustrate fashion designs and get your ideas down on paper. It is of interest to any designer, from the complete beginner or someone hoping to improve their skills and establish a career as a fashion illustrator, to professionals wanting to strengthen their visual impact. Using inspiration from past artists and illustrators, readers will ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Glamour

    Women, History, Feminism

    by Professor Carol Dyhouse ...
    How do we understand glamour? Has it empowered women or turned them into objects? Once associated with modernity and the cutting edge, is it entirely bound up with nostalgia and tradition?This unique and fascinating book tells the story of glamour. It explores the changing meanings of the word, its relationship to femininity and fashion, and its place in twentieth century social history. Using a ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Fashion Writing and Criticism

    History, Theory, Practice

    by Peter McNeil, Dr Sanda Miller ...
    Fashion Writing and Criticism provides students with the tools to critique fashion with skill and style. Explaining the history and theory of criticism, this innovative text demonstrates how the tradition of criticism has developed and how this knowledge can be applied to fashion, enabling students to acquire the methods and proper vocabulary to be active critics themselves.Integrating history and ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Social Life of Kimono

    Japanese Fashion Past and Present

    by Sheila Cliffe ...
    Series series Dress, Body, Culture
    The kimono is an iconic garment with a history as rich and colourful as the textiles from which it is crafted. Deeply associated with Japanese culture both past and present, it has often been thought of as a highly gendered, rigidly traditional and unchanging national costume. This book challenges that perception, revealing the nuanced meanings and messages behind the kimono from the point of view ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Fashion Victims

    The Dangers of Dress Past and Present

    by Alison Matthews David ...
    From insidious murder weapons to blaze-igniting crinolines, clothing has been the cause of death, disease and madness throughout history, by accident and design. Clothing is designed to protect, shield and comfort us, yet lurking amongst seemingly innocuous garments we find hats laced with mercury, frocks laden with arsenic and literally 'drop-dead gorgeous' gowns.Fabulously gory and gruesome, ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Changing Fashion

    A Critical Introduction to Trend Analysis and Meaning

    by Annette Lynch, Mitchell Strauss ...
    Series series Dress, Body, Culture
    Changing trends in fashion have always reflected large-scale social and cultural changes. Changing Fashion presents for the first time a multi-disciplinary approach to examining fashion change, bringing together theory from fashion studies, cultural studies, sociology, psychology and art history, amongst others.Ideal for the undergraduate student of fashion and cultural studies, the book has a ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Craft of Use

    Post-Growth Fashion

    by Kate Fletcher ...
    This book explores the ‘craft of use’, the cultivated, ordinary and ingenious ideas and practices that promote satisfying and resourceful use of garments, presenting them as an alternative, dynamic, experiential frame with which to articulate and foster sustainability in the fashion sector.Here Kate Fletcher provides a broad imagining of sustainability in fashion that gives attention to tending ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Fashion and Art

    Edited by Adam Geczy, Vicki Karaminas ...
    For at least two centuries, fashion and art have maintained a competitive love-hate relationship. Both fashion and art construct imaginary worlds, and use a language of style to invigorate beliefs, perceptions and ideas.Until now the crossovers of fashion and art have received only scattered treatment and suffered from a dearth of theorization. As an attempt to theorize the area, this collection ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Fashion In Focus

    Concepts, Practices and Politics

    by Tim Edwards ...
    The study of fashion has exploded in recent decades, yet what this all means or quite where it might take us is not clear. This new book helps to bring fashion into focus, with a comprehensive guide to the key theories, perspectives and developments in the field.Tim Edwards includes coverage of all the major theories of fashion, including recent scholarship, alongside subcultural analysis and an ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • The Fabric of Cultures

    Fashion, Identity, and Globalization

    Edited by Eugenia Paulicelli, Hazel Clark ...
    Fashion is both public and private, material and symbolic, always caught within the lived experience and providing an incredible tool to study culture and history.The Fabric of Cultures examines the impact of fashion as a manufacturing industry and as a culture industry that shapes the identities of nations and cities in a cross-cultural perspective, within a global framework. The collected essays ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD