Author : Amy De La Haye
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 17,74 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780719053290
This collection of essays brings together many separate but related issues which form the focus of contemporary research into the history of dress. Historically, in Britain at least, investigations of dress were primarily informed by historical and empirical protocols, although the symbolic meaning of dress was explored by anthroplogists and sociologists, who tended to concentrate on either non-Western cultures or British or Western sub-cultures. In recent years these approaches have moved closer together partly as a result of the impact of feminism.