This book documents the history and development of the cheongsam, the close-fitting dress that was the most popular single garment worn by Chinese women during the twentieth century. The volume includes discussions of issues of manufacture, design, style, gender, and cultural identity.

The Cheongsam (Images of Asia)

Religion & Spirituality

Clark, Hazel

Religious Studies

Oxford University Press

Fibres to Fabrics: Techniques and Projects for Handspinners

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Interweave Pr

32pages. in8. Broché. Nombreuses photos en noir et blanc.

Textile Printing

Science & Math

Technology

Shire Pubns

Fashion and Everyday Life: London and New York

Taking cultural theorist Michel de Certeau's notion of 'the everyday' as a critical starting point, this book considers how fashion shapes and is shaped by everyday life. Looking historically for the imprint of fashion within everyday routines such as going to work or shopping, or in leisure activities like dancing, the book identifies the 'fashion system of the ordinary', in which clothing has a distinct role in the making of self and identity. 
Exploring the period from 1890 to 2010, the study is located in London and New York, cities that emerged as as socially, ethnically and culturally diverse, as well as increasingly fashionable. The book re-focuses fashion discourse away from well-trodden, power-laden dynamics, towards a re-evaluation of time, memory, and above all history, and their relationship to fashion and everyday life. The importance of place and space - and issues of gender, race and social class - provides the broader framework, revealing fashion as both routine and exceptional, and as an increasingly significant part of urban life. 
By focusing on key themes such as clothing the city, what is worn on the streets, the imagining and performing of multiple identities by dressing up and down, going out, and showing off, Fashion and Everyday Life makes a unique contribution to the literature of fashion studies, fashion history, cultural studies, and beyond.

Arts & Photography

Buckley, Cheryl

Graphic Design

Bloomsbury Academic

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