This is the first work to survey dress around the world, drawing together issues of consumption, ethnicity, gender and the body, as well as anthropological acco

Attitudes to fashion have changed radically in the twenty-first century. Dress is increasingly approached as a means of self-expression, rather than as a signif

Attitudes to fashion have changed radically in the twenty-first century. Dress is increasingly approached as a means of self-expression, rather than as a signif

Fashion is both public and private, material and symbolic, always caught within the lived experience and providing an incredible tool to study culture and histo