The meanings of dress
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New York : Fairchild Books, Inc., [2012].
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Book
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Third edition.
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xvi, 624 pages : ilustrations ; 28 cm
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Overview: This collection of articles and essays from magazines, newspapers, books, and academic journals is designed to expand the reader's awareness and understanding of the role dress plays in cultures and subcultures across the globe. The text, which represents the very best thinking and writing on the subject today, explores essential topics such as dress and sociology, cultural studies, gender, religion, modesty, and technological changes. The Meanings of Dress, 3rd Edition is newly revised to reflect the current cultural landscape and includes more theory than previous editions, as well as an increased emphasis on the male perspective. The book provides design and merchandising students with insight into how-and why-consumers buy clothing and other products related to dress, and helps them to hone their trend forecasting skills.

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Previous edition entered under: Damhorst, Mary Lynn.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Overview: This collection of articles and essays from magazines, newspapers, books, and academic journals is designed to expand the reader's awareness and understanding of the role dress plays in cultures and subcultures across the globe. The text, which represents the very best thinking and writing on the subject today, explores essential topics such as dress and sociology, cultural studies, gender, religion, modesty, and technological changes. The Meanings of Dress, 3rd Edition is newly revised to reflect the current cultural landscape and includes more theory than previous editions, as well as an increased emphasis on the male perspective. The book provides design and merchandising students with insight into how-and why-consumers buy clothing and other products related to dress, and helps them to hone their trend forecasting skills.
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Miller-Spillman, K. A., Reilly, A. H., Hunt-Hurst, P., & Damhorst, M. L. (2012). The meanings of dress. Third edition. New York, Fairchild Books, Inc.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Kimberly A., Miller-Spillman et al.. 2012. The Meanings of Dress. New York, Fairchild Books, Inc.

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Kimberly A., Miller-Spillman et al., The Meanings of Dress. New York, Fairchild Books, Inc, 2012.

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Miller-Spillman, Kimberly A.,, et al. The Meanings of Dress. Third edition. New York, Fairchild Books, Inc, 2012.

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5050 |a Introduction to dress, culture, and theory / Kimberly A. Miller-Spillman : "Undercover" in Hijab: unveiling one month later / Cassidy Herrington ; On native ground / Wade Davis ; Etiquette 101: dress codes / Condé Nast Traveler : How dress means: abductive inference and the structure of meanings / Marcia A. Morgado ; Shades of Chanel / Tracy Jennings ; Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner ; Etiquette 101: what the world thinks about us / Boris Kachka -- Fashion as a dynamic process / Andrew Reilly : What happened to fashion? / Teri Agins ; The role of the fashion in the fashion change: a response to the Kaiser, Nagasawa and Hutton model / Rita C. Kean ; In Tehran, boutiques stock hot outerwear under the counter / Farnaz Fassihi ; Tips for working in luxury sales / Patric Richardson ; Tokyo a-go-go: cool teens in Harajuku make a fashion assault from their imaginations / Beth Hughes ; Hipster: the dead end of western civilization / Douglas Haddow -- Dress as monverbal communication / Kimberly A. Miller-Spillman : Historical background of Kente / Docea A. G. Fianu ; Manja Weinstein's Halloween kimono / Marcia Morgado, Alexandra Shields, Sophie Sun, and Cindy Urbane ; Funny Kine clothes: the Hawaiian shirt as popular culture / Marcia Morgado and Andrew Reilly ; Saudi women with "sexy eyes" will have to cover them up in pubic / John Thomas Didymus ; South Africa: semantics of the slut walk / Gillian Schutte ; Identity, postmodernity, and the global apparel marketplace / Susan B. Kaiser --
5050 |a The body / Andrew Reilly : Clothing and embodiment: men managing body image and appearance / Hannah Frith and Kate Gleeson ; Beauty and hygiene, XV: Concerning the ear / Harper's Bazaar ; Boytox: Botox for men / Joel Stein ; Skin bleaching: the complexion of identity, beauty, and fashion / Christopher A.D. Charles ; Even more visible ink / Guy Trebay ; A quantitative study of females: ethnicity and its influence on body image, thin-internalization, and social comparison / Aquiashala S. Brantley, Vanessa Jackson, and Min-Young Lee ; The enigma of beauty / Cathy Newman -- Appearance for gender and sexual identity / Andrew Reilly : Afghan boys are prized, so girls live the part / Jenny Nordberg ; Reveal or conceal?: Examining the meaning of modesty in postmodern America / Susan O. Michelman ; Lifestyle and politics of fashion and gender in 1960s Sweden: unisex fashion in theory and practice / Patrik Steorn ; Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered persons / Andrew Reilly ; Queers and mods: social and sartorial interaction in London's Carnaby Street / Shaun Cole -- Race and ethnicity / Andrew Reilly : Why Michelle Obama's hair matters / Jenee Desmond-Harris ; Japanese kind of whiteness: women's face-whitening practice and the contemporary Japanese identity / Mikiko Ashikari ; Cultural markers in dress: decoding meanings and motivations of college students / Veena Chattaraman ; "Tastily bound with ribands": ribbon-bordered dress of the Great Lakes Indians, 1735-1839 / Rachel K. Pannabecker ; "Ethnic fashion" obscures cultural identity / Sunita Puri ; Dress between the sacred and the commercial: the case of the Norwegian Bunad / Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- Dress and religion / Kimberly A. Miller-Spillman : Afghan women and the return of the Taliban / Aryn Baker ; Hair, beards, and power: taking it on the chin / The economist ; France enforces ban on full-face veils in public / Steven Erlanger ; Dress properly, no swearing, and maintain gender separation: how signs "welcome" visitors to a small U.S. community / Daily Mail Reporter ; The business impact of the royal wedding / Women's Wear Daily Reporter ; From habit to fashion: dress of Catholic women religious / Susan O. Michelman ; In Buddhist Bhutan, happiness counts / Vishal Arora ; When a holy man's skin is the canvas / Stan Sesser ; Economic downturn may be pulling necklines up: struggling retailers widen options for teens: tweens to include more modest clothes / Jayne O'Donnell --
5050 |a Dressing for life and death / Patricia Hunt-Hurst : A cheeky new business: Lexington mom starts cloth diaper company / Laura Soldato -- Parent power: raising Kate: one mom's fight for her child's identity / Connie Matthiessen ; Mary Jane shoe: a return to innocence / Mary Thompson and Susan O. Michelman ; Is tween fashion too sexy? / M.B. Sammons ; Put this on a billboard: droopy pants can kill / Clyde Haberman -- Dressing the deceased in nineteenth-century America / Jenna Tedrick Kuttruff -- Fashion, status, and inequality in dress / Patricia Hunt-Hurst : The campus as runway / Ruth La Ferla ; Asante Hightimers and the fashionable display of women's wealth in contemporary Ghana / Suzanne Gott ; Female tradition in a new context: the case of the Khanga / Katalin Medvedev and Lioba Moshi ; Dressing the Jíbaros: Puerto Rican peasants' clothing through time and space / José F. Blanco and Raúl J. Vázquez-López ; Costume and the play of social identities in an Andalusian pilgrimage / Michael D. Murphy and J. Carlos González-Faraco -- Dress in the workplace / Patricia Hunt-Hurst : "Look like a lady, act like a man, work like a dog": dressing for business success / Sara B. Marcketti and Jane Farrell-Beck ; Lessons from Ugly Betty: business attire as a conformity strategy / Barbara Burgess-Wilkerson and Jane Boyd Thomas ; How black can you be? / Audrey Edwards ; Too sexy for my bosses: why lawsuits based on looks discrimination, even good ones, are a bad idea / Richard Thompson Ford ; Up the career ladder, lipstick in hand / Catherine Saint Louis ; Casino gives workers look they can, must live with / Darlene Gavron Stevens ; Health to pay: pressures push jockeys to extremes for weight loss / Maryjean Wall -- Dress and media / Patricia Hunt-Hurst : I don't want to be perfect! / Aisha Tyler ; The two faces of Twiggy at 59: how airbrushing in Olay ad hides truth of the skin she's in / Richard Simpson ; Australia pushes new body image standard / Patty Huntington ; Do thin models warp girls' body image? / Nanci Hellmich ; How does Vogue negotiate age?: Fashion, the body, and the older woman / Julia Twigg -- Fashion and fantasy / Kimberly A. Miller-Spillman : Fantasy fashion collaborations / Kate Carter ; Fantasy fashion: Avatar's look is influencing designers, whether they're aware of it or not / Laurie Pike ; "What Disney says": young girls, dress, and the Disney princesses / Jeanne Marie Iorio ; Much more than plastic: reflections on building Star wars stormtropper armor / Eirik Saethre ; Costuming the imagination: origins of anime and manga cosplay / Theresa Winge ; A drag experience: locating fantasy in the construction of alternative gendered appearances / John Jacob ; Video game attire / Keoni Rivera --
5050 |a Dress and technology / Kimberly A. Miller-Spillman : Haute technology: a new wave of designers is experimenting with electronic textiles, reactive fashion and wearable computers for a generation that grew up wired / David Graham ; New UGA technology makes textiles germ-free / UGA News Service ; Swinging for the fences with Evoshield / Denise Horton ; Prints for the cyberage / Suzy Menkes ; Excuse me, but my dress is ringing: technology gives fabrics greater function as the daily demands of everyday life are met in style / The Toronto star ; The shirt you spray on: for clothes that fit like a second skin, try instant fabric in a can / Tamara Cohen ; It costs more to save: eco-elitism comes with a price tag: that dress made of leaves and flowers will be dead by morning / Sameer Reddy ; Kente as an indigenous Ghanaian textile / Docea A.G. Fianu ; Shifting the dominant social paradigm in the apparel industry: acknowledging the pink elephant / Cosette M. Armstrong and Melody L.A. LeHew ; Twilight of the tribes: Ethiopia's Omo River Valley / Susan Hack -- Ethics in fashion / Andrew Reilly, Kimberly A. Miller-Spillman, and Patricia Hunt-Hurst : The ethics of counterfeiting in the fashion industry: quality, credence, and profit issues / Brian Hilton, Chong Ju Choi, and Stephen Chen ; Secrets, lies, and sweatshops / Dexter Roberts and Pete Engard ; Diamonds aren't forever / Vivienne Walt ; Feather hair extensions: fashion without compassion / Elizabeth Neville ; Rationalizing circumcision: from tradition to fashion, from public health to individual freedom: critical notes on cultural persistence of the practice of genital mutilation / S.K. Hellsten ; Are required cross-cultural courses producing pluralistic students? / Kimberly A. Miller-Spillman, Susan O. Michelman, and Nicole Huffman.
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