Research Catalog

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Description

1. xv, 245 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "Technology has been an essential factor in the production of dress and the cultures of fashion throughout human history. Structured chronologically from pre-history to the present day, this is the first broad study of the complex relationship between dress and technology. Over the course of human history, dress-making and fashion technology has changed beyond recognition: from needles and human hands in the ancient world to complex 20th century textile production machines, it has now come to include the technologies that influence dress styles and the fashion industry, such as the media and printing presses. In the last century, new technologies have helped not just to produce but to define fashion: the creation of automobiles prompted a decline in long skirts for women while the beginnings of space travel caused people to radically rethink the function of dress. In many ways, technology has itself created avant garde and contemporary fashions. Through an impressive range of international case studies, the book challenges the perception that fashion is unique to western dress and outlines the many ways in which dress and technology intersect. Dress, Fashion and Technology is ideal reading for students and scholars of fashion studies, textile history, anthropology and cultural studies"--

Series statement

1. Dress, body, culture

Uniform title

1. Dress, body, culture.

Subject

1. Tailoring
2. Clothing and dress
3. Beauty and Fashion
4. Tailoring > History
5. Clothing and dress > History
6. Kläder > historia
7. Skrädderi > historia
8. Mode
9. Textilindustrie
10. DESIGN > Fashion
11. Textilhandwerk
12. Modedesign > historia
13. Fashion design > History
14. History
15. Kleidung
16. Textilien
17. DESIGN > History & Criticism

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Connecting technology, dress, and fashion -- Part I. Before the revolution : Dress and the technologies of prehistory (upper paleolithic to the neolithic period) -- Technologies and dress In towns, cities and empires (neolithic period to C. 500 C.E.) -- Technology and dress facilitate fashion change (early medieval period to the 17th century in Europe) -- Some Asian developments in technology, dress and fashion (end of the neolithic period until the 17th century) -- Part II. The industrial revolution and first steps toward the fashion industry : Dress and fashion move the industrial revolution forward (18th Century) -- The central role of dress and fashion and the industrial revolution (c. 1800 to 1860) -- Dress, fashion and social changes following the industrial revolution (19th Century) -- Tools that enable fashion change and innovations in dress (19th Century) -- Part III. The fashion industry is born : Tools and processes expand options for dress and fashion (20th and 21st centuries) -- Transportation and its effects (20th and 21st centuries) -- The effects of sports (19th to the 21st centuries) -- Communications technologies that disseminate fashion information (19th to the 21st centuries) -- Part IV. High tech enters : Technology contributes to the globalization of fashion (20th and 21st centuries) -- Environments interact with technologies (20th and 21st centuries) -- New technological frontiers for dress and fashion (21st century).

Call number

1. JFE 18-10032

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Tortora, Phyllis G.

Title

1. Dress, fashion, and technology : from prehistory to the present / Phyllis G. Tortora.

Publisher

1. London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2015.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Dress, body, culture
2. Dress, body, culture.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2014036563

Other standard identifier

1. 40024753724

ISBN

1. 9780857851901 (hardback)
2. 085785190X (hardback)
3. 9780857851918 (paperback)
4. 0857851918 (paperback)
5. 0857851926
6. 9780857851925

Research call number

1. JFE 18-10032