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Publishing Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Imprint
Manchester University Press
Publication Date
21 February 2002
Publication Country
United Kingdom
Description
Over the past ten years the study of dress history has achieved academic respectability. This book shows how the fields of dress history and dress studies are now benefitting from the adoption of new multi-disciplinary approaches and outlines the full range of these approaches which draw on material culture, ethnography, and cultural studies. -- .
Author Biography
Lou Taylor is Professor of Dress and Textile History at the University of Brighton and author of Mourning Dress: a costume and social history (1983) and, with Elizabeth Wilson, Through the looking glass (1989) -- .
