Oromo women live as traders, wood carriers, shepherds, and farmers in and around the ancient trade center of Harar in Hararghe Province, Ethiopia. They have lived with the uncertainties of drought, famine, war, and political unrest for several generations and experienced poverty…
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This study shows how Tunisia, the cross road of 3000 years of invasions and their respective cultures has given birth to a dress that reflects symbols of 'placenessness' (Hill 2005) rather than of its unique history. If browsing in the malls of Tunisia today, one would see the s…
This dissertation is the first comprehensive history of Somali dress, focusing on how the aesthetics (forms and meanings) of dress have changed as Somalis have interacted with people from other cultures and migrated from the Horn of Africa to Minneapolis-St. Paul, the largest So…
This dissertation examines the ways in which Sudanese women employed their everyday dress as a public platform for constructing new national and gendered identities during the nationalist and independence periods of the early twentieth century. Though formally excluded from the …
This thesis traces the historical development of the concept of women’s “national dress” (libosi milli) in Tajikistan during the Soviet period and the period of national independence. It explores changes in these garments’ form and meaning that took place over this approximately…
French haute couture is an industry that has withstood the test of time. From its inception in 1858 at Charles Worth’s innovative and groundbreaking shop, haute couture has become the most highly respected and revered segment of the fashion industry for its intimate understandin…
The creation of categories of biological racial difference such as skin complexion and hair texture were key sites through which Black humanity was denied and which white slave owners used to position Africans as inferior. How did enslaved Black women in the French Empire mainta…