Fashion classics from Carlyle to Barthes, Michael Carter
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Fashion classics from Carlyle to Barthes, Michael Carter
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-174) and index
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index present
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non fiction
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Fashion classics from Carlyle to Barthes
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bibliographydictionaries
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56605681
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Michael Carter
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Dress, body, culture
Summary
With so much focus on contemporary theory, it is easy to forget that the serious analysis of clothing and fashion has a long history. In fact, they have been the subject of intense cultural debate since the nineteenth century. Fashion Classics provid es an interpretative overview of the groundbreaking and often idiosyncratic writings of eight theorists whose work has profoundly influenced the conceptual and theoretical basis of our contemporary understanding of clothes and the fashion system. Car ter fully revives early fashion theorists -- some canonical and others less well known -- and exam
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