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Bobs, beards, blondes and beyond, Hair takes us on a lavishly
illustrated journey into the world of this remarkable substance and
our complicated and fascinating relationship with it. Taking the
key things we do to it in turn, this book captures its importance
in the past and into the present: to individuals and society, for
health and hygiene, in social and political challenge, in creating
ideals of masculinity and womanliness, in being a vehicle for
gossip, secrets and sex. Using art, film, personal diaries,
newspapers, texts and images, Susan J. Vincent unearths the stories
we have told about hair and why they are important. From ginger
jibes in the seventeenth century to bobbed-hair suicides in the
1920s, from hippies to Roundheads, from bearded women to smooth
metrosexuals, Hair shows the significance of the stuff we nurture,
remove, style and tend. You will never take it for granted again.
Clothes take the ordinary human body and fashion it into something
remarkable. Born to the same anatomical legacy, each generation has
used garments to shape itself in the image of its own particular
desires.
Taking different body parts in turn, The Anatomy of Fashion invites
us to view ourselves as we have been in the past. Arguing that
analysis needs to aspire to the proliferation and playfulness of
fashion itself, the chapters both explore a different aesthetic and
examine its wider, and often surprising, implications. In countless
different ways, fashion is caught up in the larger picture of its
chronological moment. Whether in the mechanisms of production, the
politics of consumption, the construction of sexuality or gender,
or the formation and reformation of manners and morals, fashion is
there.
In its provocative conclusion The Anatomy of Fashion turns its
attention to dress practices today. Reassembling the anatomical
parts, the text places the contemporary body in the historical view
and reveals the strangeness that lies at the heart of our own
normality.
Clothing occupies a complex and important position in relation to
human experience. Not just utilitarian, dress gives form to a
society's ideas about the sacred and secular, about exclusion and
inclusion, about age, beauty, sexuality and status. In Dressing the
Elite, the author explores the multiple meanings that garments held
in early modern England. Clothing was used to promote health and
physical well-being, and to manage and structure, life transitions.
It helped individuals create social identities and also to disguise
them. Indeed, so culturally powerful was the manipulation of
appearances that authorities sought its control. Laws regulated
access to the dress styles of the elite, and through less formal
strategies, techniques of disguise were kept as the perquisites of
the powerful. Focusing on the elite, the author argues that
clothing was not just a form of cultural expression but in turn
contributed to societal formation. Clothes shaped the
configurations of the body, affected spaces and interactions
between people and altered the perceptions of the wearers and
viewers. People put on and manipulated their garments, but in turn
dress also exercised a reverse influence. Clothes made not just the
man and the woman, but also the categories of gender itself. Topics
covered include cross-dressing, sumptuary laws, mourning apparel
and individual styles.
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion presents an authoritative
survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes
covers over 2,500 years of dress and fashion. Volume 1: Antiquity
(500BCE-800AD), edited by Mary Harlow Volume 2: The Medieval Age
(800-1450), edited by Sarah-Grace Heller Volume 3: The Renaissance
(1450-1650), edited by Elizabeth Currie Volume 4: The Age of
Enlightenment (1650-1800), edited by Peter McNeil Volume 5: The Age
of Empire (1800-1920), edited by Denise Amy Baxter Volume 6: The
Modern Age (1920-2000+), edited by Alexandra Palmer Each volume
discusses the same key themes in its chapters: 1. Textiles 2.
Production and Distribution 3. The Body 4. Belief 5. Gender and
Sexuality 6. Status 7. Ethnicity 8. Visual Representations 9.
Literary Representations This structure means readers can either
have a broad overview of a period by reading a volume or follow a
theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each
volume. Superbly illustrated, the full six volume set combines to
present the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available
on dress and fashion through history. The Cultural Histories Series
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion is part of The Cultural
Histories Series. Titles are available as hardcover sets for
libraries needing just one subject or preferring a tangible
reference for their shelves or as part of a fully-searchable
digital library. The digital product is available to institutions
by annual subscription or on perpetual access via
www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com. Individual volumes for academics
and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also
available in print or digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Clothes take the ordinary human body and fashion it into something
remarkable. Born to the same anatomical legacy, each generation has
used garments to shape itself in the image of its own particular
desires.
Taking different body parts in turn, The Anatomy of Fashion invites
us to view ourselves as we have been in the past. Arguing that
analysis needs to aspire to the proliferation and playfulness of
fashion itself, the chapters both explore a different aesthetic and
examine its wider, and often surprising, implications. In countless
different ways, fashion is caught up in the larger picture of its
chronological moment. Whether in the mechanisms of production, the
politics of consumption, the construction of sexuality or gender,
or the formation and reformation of manners and morals, fashion is
there.
In its provocative conclusion The Anatomy of Fashion turns its
attention to dress practices today. Reassembling the anatomical
parts, the text places the contemporary body in the historical view
and reveals the strangeness that lies at the heart of our own
normality.
Clothing occupies a complex and important position in relation to
human experience. Not just utilitarian, dress gives form to a
society's ideas about the sacred and secular, about exclusion and
inclusion, about age, beauty, sexuality and status. In Dressing the
Elite, the author explores the multiple meanings that garments held
in early modern England. Clothing was used to promote health and
physical well-being, and to manage and structure, life transitions.
It helped individuals create social identities and also to disguise
them. Indeed, so culturally powerful was the manipulation of
appearances that authorities sought its control. Laws regulated
access to the dress styles of the elite, and through less formal
strategies, techniques of disguise were kept as the perquisites of
the powerful. Focusing on the elite, the author argues that
clothing was not just a form of cultural expression but in turn
contributed to societal formation. Clothes shaped the
configurations of the body, affected spaces and interactions
between people and altered the perceptions of the wearers and
viewers. People put on and manipulated their garments, but in turn
dress also exercised a reverse influence. Clothes made not just the
man and the woman, but also the categories of gender itself. Topics
covered include cross-dressing, sumptuary laws, mourning apparel
and individual styles.
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