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Fashion and age : dress, the body and later life / by Twigg, Julia,author.;
A fascinating account of the relationship between dress and age and an investigation into the changing ways in which the fashion industry interacts with older generations. The book is driven by the desire to extend the remit of the study of fashion to encompass clothing as part of everyday bodily life.Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-169) and index.Introduction -- Clothing, fashion and the body -- Ageing, embodiment and culture -- The voices of older women -- Dress and the narration of life -- Magazines, the media and Mrs. Exeter -- The high street responds : designing for the older market -- Conclusion.
Subjects: Older women; Women's clothing.; Women;
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How to read a dress : a guide to changing fashion from the 16th to the 20th century / by Edwards, Lydia(Lydia Jenny).;
"Fashion is ever-changing, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to year that are not always easily identifiable. With overviews of each key period and detailed illustrations for each new style, How to read a dress is an authoritative visual guide to women's fashion across five centuries. Each entry includes annotated color images of historical garments, outlining important features and highlighting how styles have developed over time, whether in shape, fabric choice, trimming, or undergarments. Readers will learn how garments were constructed and where their inspiration stemmed from at key points in history -- as well as how dresses have varied in type, cut, detailing and popularity according to the occasion and the class, age and social status of the wearer. This lavishly illustrated book is the ideal tool for anyone who has ever wanted to know their cartridge pleats from their Récamier ruffles. Equipping the reader with all the information they need to 'read' a dress, this is the ultimate guide for students, researchers, and anyone interested in historical fashion" -- Publisher's descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (pages 204-205) and index.1550-1600 -- 1610-1699 -- 1710-1790 -- 1790-1837 -- 1837-1869 -- 1870-1889 -- 1890-1916 -- 1918-1929 -- 1930-1946 -- 1947-1959 -- 1960-1970.
Subjects: Women's clothing; Fashion;
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You are what you wear : what your clothes reveal about you / by Baumgartner, Jennifer J.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: The insideout connection: discovering the psychology of dress -- Shop 'til you drop: when you buy more than you need -- Letting go: when your closet is overflowing -- Somnambulist: when you are bored with your look -- Body of work: when you avoid mirrors -- You cover's blown: when you bare too much -- Adventures in time travel: when you are not dressing for your age -- Working for it: when you find yourself forever in work clothes -- It's all in the details: when you are covered in labels -- Getting back to you: when you live in mom jeans -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Do-it-yourself wardrobe analysis.Most every woman has found herself with a closet full of too many clothes or surrounded by brand-new items that somehow never get worn. Instead she gets stuck wearing the same few familiar pieces from a wardrobe that just doesn't feel "right." Dr. Jennifer Baumgartner argues that all those things are actually manifestations of deeper life issues. What if you could understand your appearance as a representation of your inner unresolved conflicts and then assemble a wardrobe to match the way you wish to be perceived? In this fashion guide that is like no other, Dr. Baumgartner helps readers identify the psychology behind their choices, so they can not only develop a personal style that suits their identity but also make positive changes in all areas of life. - Publisher.
Subjects: Fashion; Women's clothing;
© 2012., Da Capo Press,
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Wear this now : your style solution for every season and any occasion / by Madhok, Michelle.;
Subjects: Fashion.; Women's clothing.; Beauty, Personal.; Clothing and dress;
© [2012], Harlequin,
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Fashion talks : undressing the power of style / by Tarrant, Shira,1963-editor of compilation.; Jolles, Marjorie,editor of compilation.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Fashion Talks is a vibrant look at the politics of everyday style. Shira Tarrant and Marjorie Jolles bring together essays that cover topics such as lifestyle Lolitas, Hollywood baby bumps, haute couture hijab, gender fluidity, steampunk, and stripper shoes, and engage readers with accessible and thoughtful analyses of real-world issues. This collection explores whether style can shift the limiting boundaries of race, class, gender, and sexuality, while avoiding the traps with which it attempts to rein us in. Fashion Talks will appeal to cultural critics, industry insiders, mainstream readers, and academic experts who are curious about the role fashion plays in the struggles over identity, power, and the status quo"--P. [4] of cover.
Subjects: Women's clothing; Clothing and dress; Fashion; Feminism;
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Fashion before plus-size : bodies, bias, and the birth of an industry / by Downing Peters, Lauren,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In 2022, it was reported that plus-sizes accounted for nearly twenty percent of all women's apparel sales in the United States and was one of the industry's few growth sectors. For many, this news seemed to herald a remarkably inclusive turn for an industry that long bartered in exclusivity. Yet the recent success of plus-size fashion obscures a rather complicated history-one that can be traced back over a century, and which illuminates the fraught relationship between fashion, fat, and weight bias in American culture.Although many regard fat as a malady of the present, in the early twentieth century it was estimated that more than one-third of American women classified as "overweight." While modern weight bias had yet to fully cement itself in the American imaginary, the limitations of mass garment manufacturing coupled with the ascendent slender beauty ideal had already relegated larger women to fashion's peripheries. By 1915, however, fashion forecasters predicted that so-called "stoutwear" was well positioned to become one of the most lucrative subsectors of the burgeoning ready-to-wear trade. In the years that followed, stoutwear manufacturers set out to create more space for the fat woman in fashion but, in doing so, revealed an ancillary motivation: that of how to design fat out of existence altogether.Fashion Before Plus-Size considers what came "before" plus-size fashion while also shedding new light on the ways that the fashion industry not only perpetuates but produces weight bias. By situating stoutwear at the confluence of mass manufacturing, beauty ideals, standardized sizing, health discourse, and consumer culture, this book exposes the flawed foundations upon which the contemporary plus-size fashion industry has been built.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Body image in women; Women's clothing industry;
On-line resources: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kirtland-ebooks/detail.action?docID=7244697 -- Available online. Click here to access.;
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Women's work : the first 20,000 years : women, cloth, and society in early times / by Barber, E. J. W.,1940-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-322) and index.
Subjects: Textile fabrics, Prehistoric.; Women, Prehistoric.; Textile fabrics, Ancient.; Women;
© c1994., Norton,
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A woman's skin / by Stoll, David M.;
Subjects: Women; Women; Skin; Skin; Skin; Women's Health.; Skin Diseases.;
© c1994., Rutgers University Press,
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A band of noble women : racial politics in the women's peace movement / by Plastas, Melinda.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.African American women and the search for peace and freedom -- Race and the social thought of white women in the WILPF -- Philadelphia: forging a national model of interracial peace work -- Cleveland, Washington, DC, and Baltimore: extending the network of interracial peace work -- Conclusion.
Subjects: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; Women and peace; Peace movements; African American pacifists;
© 2011., Syracuse University Press,
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Foxfire 2 : ghost stories, spring wild plant foods, spinning and weaving, midwifing, burial customs, corn shuckin's, wagon making and more affairs of plain living / by Cooper, Susan.Foxfire.; Wigginton, Eliot.;
Interviews and essays describe the way of life and crafts of pioneer America still surviving in the Appalachian region.Maude Shope -- Sourwood honey -- Beekeeping -- Spring wild plant foods -- Happy dowdle -- Making an ox yoke -- Wagon wheels and wagons -- Making a tub wheel -- Making a foot-powered lathe -- From raising sheep to weaving cloth -- How to wash clothes in an iron pot -- Anna Howard -- Midwives and granny women -- Old-time burials -- Boogers, witches, and haints -- Corn shuckin's, house raisin's, quiltin's, pea thrashin's, singin's, log rollin's, candy pullin's, and... -- Kenny reunion.
Subjects: Country life; Handicraft; Handicraft.;
© 1973., Anchor Press [Anchor Books],
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