Ethnic Dress in the United States

Ethnic Dress in the United States
Author: Annette Lynch
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2014-10-30
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0759121508

The clothes we wear tell stories about us—and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States. The clothing artifacts documented here have been or are now regularly worn by Americans as everyday clothing, fashion, ethnic or religious identifiers, or style statements. They embody the cultural history of the United States and its peoples, from Native Americans, white Anglo colonists, and forcibly relocated black slaves to the influx of immigrants from around the world. Entries consider how dress items may serve as symbolic linkages to home country and family or worn as visible forms of opposition to dominant cultural norms. Taken together, they offer insight into the ethnic-based core ideologies, myths, and cultural codes that have played a role in the formation and continued story of the United States.

Ethnic Dress

Ethnic Dress
Author: Frances Kennett
Publisher: Checkmark Books
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1995
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780816031368

Arranged by region of the world, illustrates contemporary native folk costume, from the complex embroidery found on Scandinavian decorative dresses to the various styles of face veils worn by Middle Eastern women

Ethnic Dress

Ethnic Dress
Author: Costume Society of America. Meeting and Symposium
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1989
Genre: Clothing and dress
ISBN:

Ethnic Dress in the United States

Ethnic Dress in the United States
Author: Annette Ferne Lynch
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780759121485

The clothes we wear tell stories about us--and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States. The clothing artifacts documented here have been or are now regularly worn by Americans as everyday clothing, fashion, ethnic or religious identifiers, or style statements. They embody the cultural history of the United States and its peoples, from Native Americans, white Anglo colonists, and forcibly relocated black slaves to the influx of immigrants from around the world. Entries consider how dress items may serve as symbolic linkages to home country and family or worn as visible forms of opposition to dominant cultural norms. Taken together, they offer insight into the ethnic-based core ideologies, myths, and cultural codes that have played a role in the formation and continued story of the United States.

Encyclopedia of National Dress [2 volumes]

Encyclopedia of National Dress [2 volumes]
Author: Jill Condra
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 838
Release: 2013-04-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0313376379

This two-volume set presents information and images of the varied clothing and textiles of cultures around the world, allowing readers to better appreciate the richness and diversity of human culture and history. The contributors to Encyclopedia of National Dress: Traditional Clothing around the World examine clothing that is symbolic of the people who live in regions all over the world, providing a historical and geographic perspective that illustrates how people dress and explains the reasons behind the material, design, and style. The encyclopedia features a preface and introduction to its contents. Each entry in the encyclopedia includes a short historical and geographical background for the topic before discussing the clothing of people in that country or region of the world. This work will be of great interest to high school students researching fashion, fashion history, or history as well as to undergraduate students and general readers interested in anthropology, textiles, fashion, ethnology, history, or ethnic dress.

Dress and Globalisation

Dress and Globalisation
Author: Margaret Maynard
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2004-09-04
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780719063893

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 accounts and studies of representation. It examines international western style dress, including jeans and business suits, headwear and hairdressing, ethnicity and so called "ethnic chic," clothes for the tourist market, the politicization of traditional dress, "alternative" dressing, and T-shirts as temporary markers of identity. It also considers dress and environmental issues, touching on adventure gear, the "green" consumer and the possible impact of "smart" clothing.

Fashion Nation

Fashion Nation
Author: Sandra Tomc
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0472054899

A colorful look at the relationship between ethnic nationalism and gaudy dress in the early 19th-century United States

The Berg Companion to Fashion

The Berg Companion to Fashion
Author: Valerie Steele
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 800
Release: 2015-08-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1474264700

- An essential reference for students, curators and scholars of fashion, cultural studies, and the expanding range of disciplines that see fashion as imbued with meaning far beyond the material. - Over 300 in-depth entries covering designers, articles of clothing, key concepts and styles. - Edited and introduced by Valerie Steele, a scholar who has revolutionized the study of fashion, and who has been described by The Washington Post as one of "fashion's brainiest women." Derided by some as frivolous, even dangerous, and celebrated by others as art, fashion is anything but a neutral topic. Behind the hype and the glamour is an industry that affects all cultures of the world. A potent force in the global economy, fashion is also highly influential in everyday lives, even amongst those who may feel impervious. This handy volume is a one-stop reference for anyone interested in fashion - its meaning, history and theory. From Avedon to Codpiece, Dandyism to the G-String, Japanese Fashion to Subcultures, Trickle down to Zoot Suit, The Berg Companion to Fashion provides a comprehensive overview of this most fascinating of topics and will serve as the benchmark guide to the subject for many years to come.

Dress and Ideology

Dress and Ideology
Author: Shoshana-Rose Marzel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2014-12-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 147255809X

Dress and fashion are powerful visual means of communicating ideology, whether political, social or religious. From the communist values of equality, simplicity and solidarity exemplified in the Mao suit to the myriad of fashion protests of feminists such as French revolutionary women's demand to wear trousers, dress can symbolize ideological orthodoxy as well as revolt. With contributions from a wide range of international scholars, this book presents the first scholarly analysis of dress and ideology through accessible case studies. Chapters are organized thematically and explore dress in relation to topics including nation, identity, religion, politics and utopias, across an impressive chronological reach from antiquity to the present day. Dress & Ideology will appeal to students and scholars of fashion, history, sociology, cultural studies, politics and gender studies.

Chinese New Migrants in Suriname

Chinese New Migrants in Suriname
Author: Paul B. Tjon Sie Fat
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2009
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9056295985

This book covers various aspects of New Chinese Migration in Suriname in the 1990s and early 2000s. It is an ethnography of New Chinese Migrants in the context of South- South migration, but also a first ethnography of Chinese in Suriname, as well as an analysis of Surinamese ethnic discourse and ethnopolitics. Starting in the 1990s, renewed immigration from China changed the dynamics of the Surinamese Chinese community, which developed from a Hakka enclave to a culturally and linguistically diverse, modern Chinese migrant group. Local positioning strategies of Chinese had always depended on ethnic entrepreneurship and political participation, but were now complicated by anti-immigrant sentiments.