Over the past ten years the study of dress history has finally broken free of the shackles that have held it back, and is now benefiting from new, multidisciplinary approaches and practices, which draw on material culture, art history, ethnography, and cultural studies. This book focuses on the development of these new methods to be found within the field of dress history and dress studies, and assesses the current condition and future directions of the subject.

Lou Taylor is Professor of Dress and Textile History at the University of Brighton, and author of Mourning Dress: a Costume and Social History.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

(2)

Artefact-based approaches: collection, identification, conservation

(21)

Artefact-based approaches: display and interpretation

(40)

Approaches based on social and economic history, material culture and cultural studies

(26)

Approaches using literary sources

(25)

Approaches using visual analysis: paintings, drawings and cartoons

115

(35)

Approaches using visual analysis of photography and film

150

(43)

Ethnographical approaches

193

(49)

Approaches using oral history

242

(30)

Conclusion

272

(3)

Index

275

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