The Routledge History Of Fashion And Dress 1800 To The Present Veronique Pouillard by Veronique Pouillard, Vincent Dubé-senécal 9780367272227, 0367272229 instant download after payment.

The Routledge History of Fashion and Dress presents the development of research in fashion and dress history from 1800 to the present, from a global perspective. The volume is divided into five thematic sections. Part 1 is about manufacturing and materiality, engaging with the turn to materiality and the history of globalization. This section of the book looks at the workshop and at the concrete conditions of the production of dress and garments, as well as innovations, particularly the industrial processes that gave us synthetic dyes and fabrics. Part 2 focuses on the political history of fashion and dress, fashion as the locus of the construction of national identities, and the history of fashion as a communication tool. Part 3 examines fashion as business and the economic history of fashion firms as well the selling and marketing of fashion through things like department store. Part 4 is about the body and the self, fashion as body politics, and fashion as expression, addressing the questions posed by theoreticians, such as Georg Simmel, Thorstein Veblen, and Pierre Bourdieu, from a diachronic and global perspective. Part 5 is about the sources for the history of fashion and dress one chapter focusing on online and written sources, and the other on material sources. Some chapters cover the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, while others focus on shorter time spans, but all consider the depth of the chronology and historical change. The introduction outlines the transversal themes that run throughout the chapters such as environmentalism, ecology and sustainability, fashion consumption, and fashion and gender, while making the link between the present volume, the historiography in the field, and paths for future research. Covering myriad aspects of the subject this is the perfect companion for all those interested in history of dress and fashion in the modern world.