Learn about Western dress from the ancient world to today. Each chapter shows you the social, cross-cultural, environmental, geographic, and artistic influences on what people wore. More than 600 images help you to recognize recurring themes and concepts and understand the role of dress from a diverse, global perspective.
The story of fashion is the story of color. More than any other single factor, color gives a garment (and the person who wears it) impact-both visual and emotional. A woman walking toward you in a red dress tells a very different story than the same woman in blue. Yet, the twin stories of fashion and color are rarely woven together. Everyone knows that color trends are a large part of fashion, …
A Cultural History of Fashion in the 20th and 21st Centuries discusses how fashion reflects the essence of its society, how it can be moulded by many forces, such as art, music, politics, or advertising media. We can step back in history or step for- ward into the future by merely changing what we wear.