Fashion, Culture, and Identity
Drawing on interviews with designers and fashion editors, Davis shows, in this provocative look at what we do with our clothes, how our ambivalent world reveals itself through fashion.
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, ...
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents
... Clothes - pounder . J. D. Avery . No. 1,064,679 ; June 10 ; Alphabetical list of inventions - Continued . Cloth ... Clothes - case . P. Henrichs . No. 1,059,156 ; Apr. 15 ; Gaz . vol . 189 ; p . 689 . Clothes - drier . H. C. Boyer ...
Minimum Space, Maximum Living
Barty Phillips. Clothes enthusiast clothes storage makes excellent use of this fitted wardrobe . Hooks for handbags on the insides of the wardrobe doors reduces clutter inside and makes it easier to find the bag you want in a hurry ...
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 ...
All Kinds of Clothes
Text and photographs describe the types of clothing people wear to keep themselves warm or cool.
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 ...
Clothes Around the World
Introduces clothing from around the world, including formal attire, sportswear, uniforms, and outdoor gear.
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.
Federal Register
maintain the temperature of water in the weight of test cloth and clothes washers vary , but the water level cannot go to horizontal - axis clothes washer are the same , and. is estimated to be 75 percent , based on P & G survey data ...
Code of Federal Regulations
... clothes washer control system , other than an adapt- ive water fill control system , which is capa- ble of automatically adjusting washer oper- ation or washing conditions based on charac- teristics of the clothes load placed in the - ...
Clothes & Your Appearance
Clothes & Your Appearance is designed to help students understand the role clothing plays in their lives, how to make the best decisions regarding the selection and care of clothing, and how to construct apparel.
Sundressed
In Sundressed, Tonti travels the world to showcase producers who are reforming the industry, from Mongolian goatherders, to Mulberry groves in China, and American hemp farms.
Printers' Ink Monthly
... Clothes Line , faced this objection in trying to get dealers to use displays on clothes line . The product is a staple but does not bulk very large in the dealer's eyes . His volume on clothes line is not large enough to cause in ...
Fashion and Its Social Agendas
An absorbing work, Fashion and Its Social Agendas stands out as a critical study of gender, fashion, and consumer culture.
Only the Clothes on Her Back
Only the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled them to gain access to the legal system and to exercise political power.
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 ...
Vogue
... clothes , a chic that is here because she wears the right clothes for the occasion . In France , the country clothes are too dress- makery and fussy . In America , it struck me that they were , perhaps , not well chosen for the occasion ...
German and English
... clothes , clothes- dealer ; clothes - man , merchant tailor ; -hand- lung , f clothes - shop ; clothier's ( d.i.shop ) ; kammer , f.wardrobe ; -kämmerer , m . master of the wardrobe : -laus , f . Entom . large louse which infests ...
House & Garden
... clothes . 2. Not sweat them . 3. Not turn them yellow . 4. Thoroughly ventilate them . 5. Remove all odors . 6. Dry them rapidly . 7. Make them easy to iron . Theory and Practice It has been imagined that sun and wind alone dry clothes ...