The Culture of Clothing
Daniel Roche discusses general approaches to the history of dress, locates the subject within current French historiography and uses a large sample of inventories to explore the differences between the various social classes in the amount ...
Medieval Clothing and Costumes
... clothing could tell the world about your politics , your feelings , and your status within a group . In the early ... clothing to send messages to each other . The duke of Orléans decorated his clothing with an embroidered image of ...
Clothing and Difference
... clothing ( diaparo ) is characterized as sotho . This essay describes how the details of sotho dress have changed ... clothing , once they become adults , is invariably that of sekgowa . However , although sotho clothing is worn by ...
Fashion and Its Social Agendas
In this absorbing book, Diana Crane explores the social significance of clothing-from denoting class in the 19th century to ethnicity, sexual orientation, or political beliefs in the 20th-and assesses both the role of fashion in creating ...
Medieval Clothing and Textiles
... Clothing : Clerical and Academic Costume in the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales , by Laura F. Hodges ( Cambridge : D. S. Brewer , 2005 ) . ISBN 1843840332. 316 pages , 24 illustrations ( 8 in color ) . Laura Hodges returns to ...
What Clothes Reveal
Illustrated with more than 300 color photographs, including many details and back views, What Clothes Reveal treats not only elegant, high-style clothing in colonial America but also garments for everyday and work, the clothing of slaves, ...
Worn
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A sweeping and captivatingly told history of clothing and the stuff it is made of—an unparalleled deep-dive into how everyday garments have transformed our lives, our societies, and our planet. “We ...
Tempered Clothing
... clothing but which usually either overshoot the mark or fail to hit it at all . The social history of mankind shows how in all ages clothing has been a symbol of and at the same time a means toward social rank . Carlyle , in Sartor ...
Textiles and Clothing
... clothing for the season should be put away in perfect order to be ready for any sudden emergency which may arise . No clothing of any kind should be stored for the season without thorough cleaning and repairing where necessary ...
A New World Map in Textiles and Clothing Adjusting to Change
... clothing products . A Eurostat report ( 2002 ) indicates that between 1970 and 1997 the share of textiles and clothing in total household expenditure in the European Union fell from 9.3 % to 6.4 % . A similar downward consumption trend ...
Clothing Culture, 1350-1650
The essays presented in this volume form part of a growing recent trend to put fashion and clothing back into the centre ground of historical research.
Prices vocabulary of ... stores. Clothing excepted. 1898,1902 [2 pt.], 1906 [2 pt., with Appendix], 1909-12
... Clothing Department , Pimlico , For the rate see the price list of Clothing and Necessaries issued with Army Orders . ( v.s. ) F WOOLWICH SECTION NO . 1 . Frogs - Pouches . ACCOUTREMENTS . 65.
A Heat Transfer Model for Fire Fighter's Protective Clothing
... clothing throughout the range of fire environments normally faced by the fire fighter. Torvi [1] provides a review of work done on heat and mass transfer models applicable to fabrics in the high heat flux range that a fire fighter may ...
Mothers' Opinions of Fibers in Selected Items of Children's Clothing
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Common Threads
Common Threads: A Cultural History of Clothing in American Catholicism A well-illustrated cultural history of the apparel worn by American Catholics, Sally Dwyer-McNulty's Common Threads reveals the transnational origins and homegrown ...
The Complete Photo Guide to Clothing Construction
DIVThe Complete Photo Guide to Clothing Construction is a technique-based book that covers all the necessary skills for sewing clothes, including tops, dresses, pants, skirts, and outerwear—for women, men, and children./div
Uniforms and Nonuniforms
In the first in-depth study to analyze the communicative character of uniforms and other types of clothing, Nathan Joseph examines how clothing functions in a variety of social contexts to enforce norms, maintain institutional power, ...
Clothing and Fashion in Southern History
The essays in the volume, using clothing as a point of departure, encourage readers to imagine the South’s centuries-long engagement with a global economy through garments, with cotton harvested by enslaved or poorly paid workers, milled ...
The Clothes that Wear Us
Throughout the collection, there is an emphasis on the ways in which clothing could function to appropriate, explore, subvert, and assert alternative identities and possibilities."--BOOK JACKET.
Performance of Protective Clothing
... clothing composites are characterized with flux rise rate and peak heat flux . Comparisons were performed on the prediction differences of clothing system made using Henriques Burn integral and Stoll criteria under different conditions ...