Women in Clothes

Women in Clothes
Author: Sheila Heti
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 804
Release: 2014-09-04
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0698189825

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Women in Clothes is a book unlike any other. It is essentially a conversation among hundreds of women of all nationalities—famous, anonymous, religious, secular, married, single, young, old—on the subject of clothing, and how the garments we put on every day define and shape our lives. It began with a survey. The editors composed a list of more than fifty questions designed to prompt women to think more deeply about their personal style. Writers, activists, and artists including Cindy Sherman, Kim Gordon, Kalpona Akter, Sarah Nicole Prickett, Tavi Gevinson, Miranda July, Roxane Gay, Lena Dunham, and Molly Ringwald answered these questions with photographs, interviews, personal testimonies, and illustrations. Even our most basic clothing choices can give us confidence, show the connection between our appearance and our habits of mind, express our values and our politics, bond us with our friends, or function as armor or disguise. They are the tools we use to reinvent ourselves and to transform how others see us. Women in Clothes embraces the complexity of women’s style decisions, revealing the sometimes funny, sometimes strange, always thoughtful impulses that influence our daily ritual of getting dressed.

The Woman in Fashion

The Woman in Fashion
Author: Doris Langley Moore
Publisher: London ; Toronto : B.T. Batsford
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1949
Genre: Clothing and dress
ISBN:

Illustratiions show approximately 108 dresses, chronologically arranged 1800-1927.

Fashion, Women and Power

Fashion, Women and Power
Author: Denise N. Rall
Publisher:
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2022-04-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781789384611

A critique of the politics of dress for women in power. What is the relationship between fashion, women, and power? As never before, women in positions of political power find themselves facing the maelstroms of mass media regarding both their fashion and their right to govern. In this book, contributors offer a wide set of perspectives on women and their fashions when taking up powerful positions in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States as well as emerging women leaders in Asia. This book questions the relationship between women and dress and interrogates how this conversation informs and articulates how women are viewed when taking up public office. The book critiques the interplays between politics, power, class, race, and social expectations concerning the politics of getting dressed.

How to Read a Dress

How to Read a Dress
Author: Lydia Edwards
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2017-03-09
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1474286259

Fashion is ever-changing, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to year that are not always easily identifiable. With overviews of each key period and detailed illustrations for each new style, How to Read a Dress is an authoritative visual guide to women's fashion across five centuries. Each entry includes annotated color images of historical garments, outlining important features and highlighting how styles have developed over time, whether in shape, fabric choice, trimming, or undergarments. Readers will learn how garments were constructed and where their inspiration stemmed from at key points in history – as well as how dresses have varied in type, cut, detailing and popularity according to the occasion and the class, age and social status of the wearer. This lavishly illustrated book is the ideal tool for anyone who has ever wanted to know their cartridge pleats from their Récamier ruffles. Equipping the reader with all the information they need to 'read' a dress, this is the ultimate guide for students, researchers, and anyone interested in historical fashion.

Glamour's Big Book of Dos & Don'ts

Glamour's Big Book of Dos & Don'ts
Author: Cindi Leive
Publisher: Gotham
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2006
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN:

Glamour takes Glamour Magazine's best-loved feature and distils the advice into a new style guide perfect for any fashion situation. The focus rests on what always works and not on flash-in-the-pan trends that can turn into disasters, which means the advice in the book is timeless. Produced by leading packager Melcher Media on the heels of its hugely successful Lucky Shopping Manual, this title is published just in time for the Christmas party season.

Dressed for Freedom

Dressed for Freedom
Author: Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2021-11-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0252052943

Often condemned as a form of oppression, fashion could and did allow women to express modern gender identities and promote feminist ideas. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox examines how clothes empowered women, and particularly women barred from positions of influence due to race or class. Moving from 1890s shirtwaists through the miniskirts and unisex styles of the 1970s, Rabinovitch-Fox shows how the rise of mass media culture made fashion a vehicle for women to assert claims over their bodies, femininity, and social roles. She also highlights how trends in women’s sartorial practices expressed ideas of independence and equality. As women employed new clothing styles, they expanded feminist activism beyond formal organizations and movements and reclaimed fashion as a realm of pleasure, power, and feminist consciousness. A fascinating account of clothing as an everyday feminist practice, Dressed for Freedom brings fashion into discussions of American feminism during the long twentieth century.

Wearing the Trousers

Wearing the Trousers
Author: Don Chapman
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2017-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 144566951X

The story of women's liberation as told by their changing dress – in the public gaze and in private

Bad Girls of Fashion

Bad Girls of Fashion
Author: Jennifer Croll
Publisher:
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2016
Genre: Celebrities
ISBN: 9781554517886

"Explores the lives of ten famous women who have used clothing to make a statement, change perceptions, break rules, attract power, or express their individuality. Included are Cleopatra, Marie Antoinette, Coco Chanel, Marlene Dietrich, Madonna, and Lady Gaga. Sidebar subjects include: Elizabeth I, Marilyn Monroe, Rihanna, and Vivienne Westwood."--Provided by publisher.

Fashion and Politics

Fashion and Politics
Author: Djurdja Bartlett
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2019-01-01
Genre: Design
ISBN: 030023886X

In this incisive book, leaders from international fashion research and artistic practices probe the nuanced relationship between fashion and politics.

Women of Fashion

Women of Fashion
Author: Valerie Steele
Publisher:
Total Pages: 238
Release: 1991
Genre: Costume design
ISBN:

Explores the increasing prominence of women in the fashion design and examines their contributions to twentieth-century fashion.