This chronicle of American women's fashions examines relationships between the mass-market ready-to-wear industry, fashion journalism, and fashion advertising.
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"In this comprehensive study, Daniel Delis Hill offers a rich new resource for students and professionals in fashion and business history, popular culture, advertising, marketing, and women's studies." "The hundreds of American advertising images Hill gathers here document much …
Throughout the twentieth century the ready-to-wear industry, fashion journalism, and mass-media advertising fueled one another's success by identifying an ever-widening consumer class and fanning the desire to be fashionable. Through more than six hundred fashion ads that appear…
"6 unique accessory sets made using fingering-, sport- and worsted- weight yarns"--Cover.
Crocheters can satisfy their desire for unique and fun accessories with this great book of contemporary hats, scarves, and mittens. All six sets in styles for men and women are made using fine, sport, and medium worsted-weight yarns by Cascade. Head coverings include a headband,…
What the smallest detail of dress reveals about gender, sexuality, race, politics, and aesthetics.
The essays collected here offer theoretical and historical takes on the role of clothing, dress and accessories in the construction of the modern subject.
"The first in the four-part series Habits of Being, charting the social, cultural, and political expression of clothing as seen on the street and in museums, in films and literature, and in advertisements and magazines, this volume features a close-up focus on accessories-the sh…