Edition: Bk&Guide
Publication date: 1988-08
List Price: $45.00
Price: $111.11
Review Tattooing A to Z: A Guide to Successful Tattooing/Guide to Sterile Tattooing Techniques / Spaulding & Rogers Manufacturing:
Publication date: 1995-10-09
Review The Face of the Century / Thames & Hudson Ltd:
Publication date: 1987-12
Price: $120.00
Review A Compendium of Cosmotology and Anesthetics / Hyperion Books:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-06-01
Dewey code: 391.41
List Price: $180.00
Price: $96.00
Review Footbinding, Feminism and Freedom: The Liberation of Women's Bodies in Modern China (Sport in the Global Society) / Frank Cass:This original book brings Chinese women to the centre of the Chinese cultural stage by examining the role which exercise and, subsequently, sport played in their liberation. Physical emancipation, particularly in the custom of footbinding, which continued to be practised to some extent in China until 1949, was the prerequisite for wider emancipation. Through the medium of women's bodies, Fan Hong explores the significance of religious beliefs, cultural codes and political dogmas for gender relations, gender concepts and the human body in an Asian setting. Until now no academic work has discussed women, emancipation and exercise within the social, cultural and political setting of China from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth centuries. Inquiry into the evolving relationship between women's emancipation and exercise over this period is necessary and overdue if there is to be a full understanding of China in an era of gender role reconstruction. Moreover the dramatic and brutal patriarchal tradition of physical repression of the female body in Chinese history, particularly the inhuman institution of footbinding, makes the physical emancipation of Chinese women an issue of special significance in the history of liberation of the modern female body.
Authors
- Anne Strong
- Sheila McCallun
Price: $69.00
Review Starting Work in the Salon / Hyperion Books:
Creator: Elizabeth B. Wilson
Edition: First
Publication date: 2001-06-01
Dewey code: 746
List Price: $99.95
Price: $95.95
Review Body Dressing (Dress, Body, Culture) / Berg Publishers:For some time now the body has been a central topic across a range of social science disciplines. Similarly, there has been a growing interest in the cultural meaning of clothing. But curiously, even though people are nearly always clothed, the relationship between dress and the body has been relatively unexplored until now. Dress is a crucial aspect of embodiment, shaping the self physically and psychologically. From dressing up to dressing down, this book exposes the complex ways that fashions and costumes render the body presentable in a vast range of social situations. It investigates the varied ways in which western and non-western clothes operate to give the body meaning and situate it within culture. The authors consider different approaches to the relationship between fashion, dress and the body, and present new theoretical models for their future study. They demonstrate the importance of the concept of ‘embodiment’ to dress and fashion studies. Exploring gender, photography, cultural history and modernity, this book deals with a vast range of questions inherent in dressing up the body. From fashion photography in the 1960s to contemporary queer fashion and the history of the masquerade, this is a fascinating and far-reaching collection. [+]Its breadth and depth make it essential reading for anyone interested in style, costume, the body, gender or history.
Creator: Chemical Pub. Co.
Publication date: 1992-11
Dewey code: 646
List Price: $90.00
Price: $90.00
Review Bennett's Cosmetic Formulary / Chemical Publishing Company:Enclosed you will find the copy for the foil on the hardcover. Please use gold foil.
Publication date: 1948
Review Eat and grow beautiful, / faber and faber:
Creator: R. L. Shep
Publication date: 1993-11-01
Dewey code: 391.42
List Price: $26.95
Price: $95.47
Review Corsets: A Visual History / R.L. Shep:"The line of fashion is determined by the foundation garment". This book contains hundreds of illustrations from ads and catalogs published originally in the 19th and early 20th centuries. A fine historical record, indispensable for research into period clothing and the fashion silhouette, this is a scarce source for information on foundation garments of the mid-1800s to the 1930s. With historical notes.
Publication date: 1985-05-09
Dewey code: 391.209034
Price: $29.95
Review Fashion and Eroticism: Ideals of Feminine Beauty from the Victorian Era Through the Jazz Age / Oxford University Press, USA:The traditional image of the Victorian woman presents her as strait-laced and prudish, her clothing an outward sign of her sexual repression and exploitation. This situation supposedly persisted until the Women's Rights Movement and World War I forced the world to acknowledge that women were liberated individuals with legs. Yet Valerie steele demonstrates that eroticism formed the basis for the Victorian ideal of feminine beauty and fashion-indeed, that the concepts of beauty and fashion are essentially erotic. She shows that, far from being passive "sex objects," Victorian women, like their modern counterparts, themselves chose to emulate an erotic ideal as an aspect of their own self-fulfillment. Even the notorious corset was neither fetishistic nor an unhealthy instrument of torture, she argues, although its comlex and ambivalent sexual symbolism aroused controversy. Fashion and Eroticism shows how the New Look of "sexy" modern naturally from within the pre-war world of fashion and not as part of an intifashion movement. Steele's conclusions are based on prodigious documentary evidence, including visual and material research, in costume collections in the United States, Great Britain, Europe, and even Japan. Fashiona and Eroticism is not only a radical revision of the Conventional understanding of Victorian fashion; it is a major contribution to the histyory of women and sexuality. About the Author: Valerie steele received her Ph. D. [+]from Yale University in 1983, and was the 1984 First Ladies' Fellow at the Division of Costume, National Museum of American History, the Smithsonian Institution.
Creator: Wendy Parkins
Publication date: 2002-05-01
Dewey code: 391
List Price: $99.95
Price: $92.71
Review Fashioning the Body Politic: Dress, Gender, Citizenship / Berg Publishers:With an afterword by Roger Griffin. Fashion is often thought of as a matter of personal taste, completely unconnected with the public domain of political life and citizenship. Overturning this perspective, this absorbing book reveals that, from the French Revolution to post-revolutionary China, fashion has played a significant role in political participation and protest. Fashioning the Body Politic challenges the perception of helpless fashion victims, subject to manipulation by consumerism and the fashion industry, and shows how, in a range of historical and national contexts, certain styles of dress and display were significant for both men and women's political participation and the formation of their identities as citizens. How did 'dressing up' in a variety of ways allow suffragette women to perform unconventional forms of political protest? In what ways did the uniforms of scouts and guides function to erect gender, racial and religious boundaries? Following the ban on traditional clothing in Imperial Russia, how did Russians appropriate European fashions and ethnic costumes to fashion new identities for themselves? Using these and a wealth of other case studies, Fashioning the Body Politic offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between men, women and fashion and shows that the political domain has always been permeated with the cultural practices of dress, display and bodily performance.
Edition: 4th
Publication date: 1989-06
Dewey code: 646.7
Price: $29.95
Review Complete Hairdressing Science / Butterworth-Heinemann:This text provides a full course for the Certificate in Advanced Studies in Hairdressing Science (City & Guilds 300) and all the essential text for the Royal Society of Health and the Royal Insititue of Public Health & Hygiene examinations for hairdressers' hygiene and health examinations. The additional material included in this edition presents background and supplement studies to meet the City & Guilds 300 Hairdressing Practices examination. The new material is presented in competence-based format as a glossary related to the hairdressing practice competencies. Also included are sample tests for the science-related content of the Hairdressing Practice examination and the Science Studies endorsement examination together with answers.
Publication date: 2007-03-06
Dewey code: 391.09410904
List Price: $105.00
Price: $96.58
Review Fashion for the People: A History of Clothing at Marks & Spencer / Berg Publishers:Marks & Spencer is an institution synonymous with quality, reliability, and customer care. But do we associate it with “fashion”? Drawing on previously unpublished company archives, Fashion for the People considers the company's contribution to British-and, since the 1970s, international-fashion. The author discusses how, from the 1920s, Marks & Spencer brought fashion to the high street, offering well-designed clothing at affordable prices. She examines the unique ways in which the company has democratized fashion, arguing that its pioneering role in the development of new fabrics, the employment of designers as consultants and its marketing and promotional strategies have changed the ways in which we understand and consume fashion. Marks & Spencer is not just a stalwart of the British high street. As this book shows, it has also brought fashion to the masses.
Review Plan Your Wardrobe with Chata Romano / Struik Publishers:A guide for women on how to use clothes, hair, make-up and accessories to flatter their positive points and disguise less attractive features. It advises on creating a "capsule collection" of mix-and-match garments to suit any occasion and there are photographs to demonstrate the ideas.
Creator: Hazel Clark
Edition: First
Publication date: 2005-01-15
Dewey code: 391.009051
List Price: $109.95
Price: $108.85
Review Old Clothes, New Looks: Second-Hand Fashion (Dress, Body, Culture) / Berg Publishers:Second-hand fashion has a history as old as the production of clothing itself, but until recently it was given little consideration. Used clothes represent the largest numbers of existing garments but until recently they were not perceived as serious fashion items. However, this has changed dramatically with the rise of vintage web sites, value clothing chains, and the fashion media's perpetuation of the idea that secondhand clothes can be recycled into avant-garde "cool". This book not only shows how important used clothing has become but also what role it plays in culture and history. The Japanese, for example, traditionally salvage sections of kimonos, while in India garments are inexhaustibly recycled. This cross-cultural and historical perspective fills a major gap by offering fresh insights into the innovative use of secondhand dress and age-old traditions of recycling fashion.
Creator: David Gilbert
Publication date: 2006-12-12
Dewey code: 391.009
List Price: $125.00
Price: $113.54
Review Fashion's World Cities (Cultures of Consumption) / Berg Publishers:New York, Paris, London, Milan, Tokyo. This familiar list of cities conjures up the image of high fashion. This book examines the powerful relationship between metropolitan modernity and fashion culture. The authors look at the significance of certain key sites in fashion's world order and at transformations in the connections between key cities. The status of fashion capital has now become a goal for urban boosters and planners, part of the wider promotion of the "cultural economy" of major cities. In a rapidly changing global fashion system new centres like Shanghai are making claims to join the ranks of Fashion's World Cities. In chapters ranging from Los Angeles to Moscow and Dakar to Mumbai, Fashion's World Cities explores the relationship between major metropolises and the production, consumption and mythologizing of fashion.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1989-11-29
Dewey code: 391.00952
List Price: $65.00
Price: $199.99
Review The Story of the Kimono: 2 / Studio:
Authors
- Richard Martin
- Karin L. Willis
Dewey code: 391.00973
Review Ceaseless Century: 300 Years of Eighteenth-Century Costume / Metropolitan Museum of Art:
Publication date: 1990-03
Dewey code: 746
Price: $49.95
Review Pattern Cutting and Making Up for Outerwear Fashions: The Light Clothing Approach / Butterworth-Heinemann:
Publication date: 1907
Review A dream of fair women / Grosset & Dunlap:
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