The fashion history reader: global perspectives

Introduction: The fashion history reader: global perspectives Snapshot 1. The study of fashion and dress PART 1. Fashion's 'origins' : the Middle Ages and Renaissance 1. The birth of fashion Snapshot 2. Fashion, fabrics and the Orient 2. A short history of sumptuary laws Snapshot 3. The 'fashion other': Jews in the late Middle Ages 3. Codpieces and masculinity in early modern England Snapshot 4. Objects of fashion in the Renaissance PART 2. Fashion and social order: the early modern world 4. Clothing and early modern Venetian society Embroidery, women and fashion in the Early Modern period 5. Male headwear at the courts of Henry VIII and Edward VI Snapshot 6. The stage, costume and fashion Snapshot 7. The courtier and fashion Mapping the world: dress in Cesare Vecellio's costume books Snapshot 8. Fashion in the archive 7. Clothing the courtier Snapshot 9. Fashion in the Spanish court PART 3. The fashion revolution: the 'long' eighteenth century 8. Custom or consumption? Plebeian fashion in eighteenth-century England Snapshot 10. Fashion in the museum: the material culture of artefacts 9. Fashioning cottons: Asian trade, domestic industry and consumer demand, 1660-1780 Snapshot 11. Fashion and silk design 10. Fashion in the eighteenth century: some Anglo-French comparisons Snapshot 12. Fashion, prestige and the eighteenth-century Beau Monde 11. Fashion journals and the education of enlightened consumers Snapshot 13. Fashion and the eighteenth-century satirical print Snapshot 14. Ideology and the dangers of fashion in early national America PART 4. Between luxury and leisure: the nineteenth century 12. Artificial beauty, or the morality of dress and adornment Snapshot 15. Fashion, readers and the novel in the nineteenth century

13. Modes of manliness: reflections on recent histories of masculinities and fashion

Snapshot 16. Fashion, the factory and exploitation

Snapshot 17. Jewellery and fashion in the nineteenth century

14. L'Homme des foules, dandy, flaneur: fashion and the metropolis 1850-1940

Snapshot 18. The dandy

Snapshot 19. Fashion and France in the Second Empire

15. Clothing behaviour as non-verbal resistance: marginal women and alternative dress in the nineteenth century

Snapshot 20. Fashion, birth and death in the nineteenth century

PART 5. Westernisation and colonialism : the age of empires

16. Fashions in late imperial China

Snapshot 21. Reforming dress in Peter the Great's Russia

Snapshot 22. Clothing and ethnicity in Colonial Spanish America

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17. British attitudes to Indian and European dress

Snapshot 23. Distance and respectability in Colonial Australia

Snapshot 24. Fashion and abolitionism

18. The Westernisation of clothes and the state in Meiji Japan

Snapshot 25. Ottoman clothing rules: changes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

19. Western modes and Asian clothing: reflections on borrowing other people's dress

Snapshot 26. Fashion and anthropology: the case of Africa

Snapshot 27. Islamic fashion

Snapshot 28. Orientalism today

PART 6. Modern to hyper-ultramodern : the twentieth century

Poiret's modernism and the logic of fashion

Snapshot 29. Haute couture

Snapshot 30. The origins of the modern fashion show

Snapshot 31. Madame Gres: master couturier

Snapshot 32. Fashion as 'art' version fashion as 'craft' revisited

Nice threads: identity and utility in American fashion

Snapshot 33. Women designing modernity

Snapshot 34. Fashion and the moving image

Snapshot 35. Totalitarian dress

Snapshot 36. Fashion and film

22. The self as image: a critical appraisal of postmodern theories of fashion

Snapshot 37. Fashion and club culture, 1970-90

Snapshot 38. Fashion in the 1980s: a time of revival

Snapshot 39. Fashion and adornment

Snapshot 40. Ethics and the future of fashion

23. Italian and Chinese agendas in the global fashion industry

Snapshot 41. Made-in-Italy: between past and future

Snapshot 42. The contemporary Japanese consumer

Snapshot 43. Luxury brands and fashion: an un-natural marriage?

Snapshot 44. Fashion branding: Ralph Lauren's stage.