Dressed in Time : A World View

Summary: "From the physical effects of age on garments to their changing cultural significance, time and fashion are inextricably linked. Every garment has its own pace and narrative, and every dress practice is rich with temporal associations: 'wearing' time in the form wristwatches, marking key moments in time from marriage to death, 'defying' time with beauty products, preserving and re-imagining time through vintage, and concepts of 'timeless' and 'classic' styles. This ground-breaking book presents a complete rethinking of the study of global fashion history, revealing the complex nature of changing fashion when viewed through the lens of time and challenging Eurocentric approaches such as the periodization of style and the arbitrary division of 'western' and 'non-western' fashion. Through object-based case studies of garments from the ancient past through to the 21st century, Margaret Maynard reveals the countless ways the temporal is woven into our attire. Highly original and interdisciplinary, Fashion in Time is essential reading for students and scholars of fashion and dress history, material culture studies, cultural anthropology, archaeology and related fields."--

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ISBN: 9781350032743
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Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 pages)
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
Distributor: [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Preface -- 1. About Time -- 2. The Origins of Dress: Archaeology -- 3. Is it Possible to Contextualize Dress? -- 4. Temporal Juxtapositions -- 5. Time and the State -- 6. Dressing Age and Ritual -- 7. Dress and Cultural Memory -- 8. The Wardrobe: A Cultural Collective -- 9. Deceiving, Recycling and 'Timeless' Dress -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.