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This illustrated survey of 600 years of fashion investigates its cultural and social meanings from medieval Europe to 20th-century America. It provides a guide to the changes in style and taste, and challenges existing fashion histories, showing that clothes have always played a pivotal role in defining a sense of identity and society, especially when concerned with sexual and body politics. With a chronological structure, each chapter focuses on both male and female fashion of a specific period, covering its fascinating developments. It discusses: andrognous dressing; body piercing; fabrics, clothing and the rise of city life; dress, and the changing shape of the human body; controversies surrounding trousers and leg wear for both men and women; exposure of flesh; fashion and social status; and the dissemination of fashion through travel, film, magazines and catwalk shows.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: Culture of Fashion
• Subtitle: A New History of Fashionable Dress
• Author: Christopher Breward
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9780719041259
• ISBN: 0719041252
• ID: 04647346
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Weight: 638 g
• Dimensions: 240 × 169 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. March 1995

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