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This collection of essays brings together many separate but related issues
which form the focus of contemporary research into the history of dress.
Historically, in Britain at least, investigations of dress were primarily
informed by historical and empirical protocols, although the symbolic meaning
of dress was explored by anthroplogists and sociologists, who tended to
concentrate on either non-Western cultures or British or Western sub-cultures.
In recent years these approaches have moved closer together partly as a result
of the impact of feminism. The essays reflect this moment in the study of fashion, showing how in the
late 1990s garments may be researched as discrete objects, as part of consumer
culture, and as components of created meaning which are expressive of personal
identity and social belonging.The partial breakdown of the traditional fashion
system has made new approaches to the study of what we wear, how it is created
and how we recreate ourselves possible. This collection of essays show how in the late 1990s garments may be
researched as discrete objects, as part of consumer culture, and as components
of created meaning which are expressive of personal identity and social
belonging.
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Defining Dress: Dress as Object, Meaning and Identity
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