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Defining Dress: Dress as Object, Meaning, and Identity

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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 ...

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Defining Dress: Dress as Object, Meaning and Identity 2000, Manchester University Press

ISBN-13: 9780719053290

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Defining Dress: Dress as Object, Meaning, and Identity 2000, Manchester University Press

ISBN-13: 9780719053283

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