Chinese Dress (Far Eastern Series / Victoria and Albert Museum)


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A comprehensive study of Chinese dress from the 17th century to the present day. Drawing on the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection, Chinese fashion is placed in a broad cultural context, emphasizing the role of dress in establishing social status. Read more...

Eastern Europe (Cultures and Costumes)


Eastern Europe (Cultures and Costumes) by Mason Crest

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Clothing Matters: Dress and Identity in India


Clothing Matters: Dress and Identity in India by University Of Chicago Press

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What do I wear today? The way we answer this question says much about how we manage and express our identities. This detailed study examines sartorial style in India from the late nineteenth century to the present, showing how trends in clothing are related to caste, level of education, urbanization, and a larger cultural debate about the nature of Indian identity.

Clothes have been used to assert power, challenge authority, and instigate social change throughout Indian society. During the struggle for independence, members of the Indian elite incorporated elements of Western style into their clothes, while Gandhi's adoption of the loincloth symbolized the rejection of European power and the contrast between Indian poverty and British wealth. Similar tensions are played out today, with urban Indians adopting "ethnic" dress as villagers seek modern fashions.

Illustrated with photographs, satirical drawings, and magazine advertisements, this book shows how individuals and groups play with history and culture as they decide what to wear.
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A catalogue of valuable and curious books; consisting of several collections lately purchased, among which are folio. Dresses of eastern nations, ... ... on and after the 20th of February, 1771. ...


A catalogue of valuable and curious books; consisting of several collections lately purchased, among which are folio. Dresses of eastern nations, ... ... on and after the 20th of February, 1771. ... by Gale ECCO, Print Editions

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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With a final advertisement leaf.

[London, 1771]. [4],170,[2]p. ; 8° Read more...

Readings and Signings
Seacoastonline.com - Jul 17, 2011

Featured will be handmade dresses, pants outfits, tops, lounging pajamas, robes and nightgown sets, and accessories. Proceeds raised through past doll clothing sales have made it possible for the Friends to purchase furnishings for the library's


Into tea-growing country: Rize and the Laz lands
Sunday's Zaman - Jul 17, 2011

For people who assume that most tea comes from India and Sri Lanka, the sight of the endless deep-green plantations carpeting the slopes of the mountains east of Rize will come as something of a surprise. Not to the Turks, though, for whom the eastern


Oriental expressions
Deccan Chronicle - Jul 09, 2011
Oriental expressions

Is it any wonder then that eastern prints and kimono dresses are huge in the fashion world right now? Says actress Rishika Singh, “Authentic traditional fashion from a far off land always carries a sense of appeal. In the same way that the saree is a


The light stuff at couture
The Australian - Oct 17, 9596

However, Valentino, Givenchy, Giambattista Valli in his debut haute couture collection, Christian Dior and Elie Saab definitely had the well-travelled international set in their sights with beautifully crafted dresses in bright prints, luminous pale


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Dresses for Dinner: The Eastern Shore

by Dresses for Dinner

This is a fashion collective following two girls living in Akron, Ohio . Meet Anna and Jessica. Anna's an artist. Jessica's a writer. The two of them are polar opposites in most aspects of fashion, but one thing they have in common is their love of vintage, thrifting, and DIY's. Dressing like a million bucks isn't the same as spending a million bucks and they'll show you exactly how they do it.

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