Dressed to impress : looking the part / edited by William Keenan.

How humans dress defines their identity. These writings show how show how the dressed body is central to the construction of a recognizable identity and provide accessible accounts of the link between dress and a considerable variety of lifestyles.

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Bibliographic Details
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Berg, 2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • 1. Introduction: Sartor Resartus Restored: Dress Studies in Carlylean Perspective
  • 2. A Comparative Exploration of Dress and the Presentation of Self as Implicit Religion
  • 3. An 'Informalizing Spurt' in Clothing Regimes: Court Ballet in the Civilizing Process
  • 4. Land of Hip and Glory: Fashioning the 'Classic' National Body
  • 5. Multiple Meanings of the Hijab in Contemporary France
  • 6. Gestus Manifests Habitus: Dress and the Mormon
  • 7. Vampires and Goths: Fandom, Gender and Cult Dress
  • 8. The Fall and Rise of Erotic Lingerie
  • 9. Dress Freedom: The Personal and the Political
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index.
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    391.0019 DRE
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