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Recycling Indian clothing : global contexts of reuse and value
In today's globally connected marketplace, a wedding sari in rural north
India may become a woman's blouse or cushion cover in a Western boutique. Lucy
Norris's anthropological study of the recycling of clothes in Delhi follows garments
as they are gifted, worn, handed on, discarded, recycled, and sold once more. Gifts
of clothing are used to make and break relationships within middle-class households,
but a growing surplus of unwanted clothing now contributes to a global glut of
textile waste. When old clothing is, for instance, bartered for new kitchen
utensils, it enters a vast waste commodity system in which it may be resold to the
poor or remade into new textiles and exported. Norris traces these local and
transnational flows through homes and markets as she tells the stories of the people
who work in the largely hidden world of fabric recycling.
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What we wear : dressing up around the world
Features pictures of children in their national, ethnic, or tribal regalia.
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Japanese Fashion Cultures
Blurb: From Rococo to Edwardian fashions, Japanese street style has reinvented many western dress styles, reinterpreting and altering their meanings and messages in a different cultural and historical context. This wide ranging and original study reveals the complex exchange of styles and what they represent in Japan and beyond, contesting common perceptions of gender in Japanese dress and the notion that non-western fashions simply imitate western styles. Through case studies focussing on fashion image consumption in style tribes such as Kamikaze Girls, Lolita, Edwardian, Ivy Style, Victorian, Romantic and Kawaii, this ground-breaking book investigates the complexities of dress and gender and demonstrates the flexible nature of contemporary fashion and style exchange in a global context. Japanese Fashion Cultures will appeal to students and scholars of fashion, cultural studies, gender studies, media studies and related fields.
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Clothes around the world
Looks at the rich diversity of clothes around the world and introduces children to the similarities and differences found in clothes in different cultures.
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Shirts Powdered Red
Beginning with a purchased shirt and ending with a
handmade dress, Shirts Powdered
Red shows how Haudenosaunee women and their
work shaped their nations from the sixteenth century through the
nineteenth century.
By looking at clothing that was bought, created, and remade,
Maeve Kane brings to life how Haudenosaunee women used access to
global trade to maintain a distinct and enduring Haudenosaunee
identity in the face of colonial pressures to assimilate and
disappear. Drawing on rich oral, archival, material, visual, and
quantitative evidence, Shirts Powdered Red tells the story
of how Haudenosaunee people worked to maintain their nations'
cultural and political sovereignty through selective engagement
with trade and the rhetoric of civility, even as Haudenosaunee
clothing and gendered labor increasingly became the focus of
colonial conversion efforts throughout the upheavals and
dispossession of the nineteenth century.
Shirts Powdered Red offers a sweeping, detailed
cultural history of three centuries of Haudenosaunee women's labor
and their agency to shape their nations' future.
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Clothes
\"This book looks at the clothes we wear. Do we really need designer clothes? When is it OK to want new clothes?\"-- Back cover.
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Costume and History in Highland Ecuador
The traditional costumes worn by people in the Andes-women's
woolen skirts, men's ponchos, woven belts, and white felt
hats-instantly identify them as natives of the region and serve as
revealing markers of ethnicity, social class, gender, age, and so
on. Because costume expresses so much, scholars study it to learn
how the indigenous people of the Andes have identified themselves
over time, as well as how others have identified and influenced
them.
Costume and History in Highland Ecuador assembles for
the first time for any Andean country the evidence for indigenous
costume from the entire chronological range of prehistory and
history. The contributors glean a remarkable amount of information
from pre-Hispanic ceramics and textile tools, archaeological
textiles from the Inca empire in Peru, written accounts from the
colonial period, nineteenth-century European-style pictorial
representations, and twentieth-century textiles in museum
collections. Their findings reveal that several garments introduced
by the Incas, including men's tunics and women's wrapped dresses,
shawls, and belts, had a remarkable longevity. They also
demonstrate that the hybrid poncho from Chile and the rebozo from
Mexico diffused in South America during the colonial period, and
that the development of the rebozo in particular was more
interesting and complex than has previously been suggested. The
adoption of Spanish garments such as the pollera (skirt)
and man's shirt were also less straightforward and of more recent
vintage than might be expected.
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Zoe gets ready
Zoe wonders what kind of day she will have as she prepares to get dressed on Saturday-- the only day of the week on which she can decide for herself what to wear.
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meXicana Fashions
Collecting the perspectives of scholars who reflect on their own relationships to particular garments, analyze the politics of dress, and examine the role of consumerism and entrepreneurialism in the production of creating and selling a style, meXicana Fashions examines and searches for meaning in these visible, performative aspects of identity. Focusing primarily on Chicanas but also considering trends connected to other Latin American communities, the authors highlight specific constituencies that are defined by region (“Tejana style,\" “L.A. style\"), age group (“homie,\" “chola\"), and social class (marked by haute couture labels such as Carolina Herrera and Oscar de la Renta). The essays acknowledge the complex layers of these styles, which are not mutually exclusive but instead reflect a range of intersections in occupation, origin, personality, sexuality, and fads. Other elements include urban indigenous fashion shows, the shifting quinceañera market, “walking altars\" on the Days of the Dead, plus-size clothing, huipiles in the workplace, and dressing in drag. Together, these chapters illuminate the full array of messages woven into a vibrant social fabric.
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