Fashion and Culture: 6 Classic Books
Six Classic Studies of Dress, Domestic Arts, Textile Design, and the Social Meaning of StyleBy Jane Warren Wells, G. Woolliscroft Rhead, Ethel Beatrice Abrahams, Dorothy Quigley, Virginia M. Alexander, Helen Kinne, Anna M. Cooley
Length21h 11m
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Fashion and Culture: 6 Classic Books gathers foundational writing on dress as an artistic practice, social language, and historical record. Across its six texts, the volume moves between practical instruction, aesthetic criticism, costume history, and reflections on changing ideals of beauty and propriety. Its range reveals fashion not as a superficial ornament but as a medium through which class, gender, labor, commerce, and cultural memory become visible. Studies of historical costume and the evolution of fashionable form stand alongside more applied discussions of design, furnishing a rich map of early modern fashion discourse. The contributors—Jane Warren Wells, G. Woolliscroft Rhead, Ethel Beatrice Abrahams, Dorothy Quigley, Virginia M. Alexander, Helen Kinne, and Anna M. Cooley—bring together perspectives shaped by art education, domestic science, design pedagogy, and historical scholarship. Their collective work belongs to a period in which dress was increasingly treated as a serious object of research and instruction. Read together, these voices illuminate the links between women's education, professional design culture, museum-minded historical inquiry, and the codification of taste. This volume is recommended for students of fashion studies, cultural history, art, and material culture, as well as general readers seeking a broad historical encounter with dress. It offers the unusual benefit of multiple methods and sensibilities in one collection, inviting readers to compare arguments, vocabularies, and ideals across the texts. Fashion and Culture rewards sustained reading by fostering a dialogue between practical knowledge and cultural interpretation.
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GenreOther, Literary Classics
Length21 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Greek Dress
2PREFACE
3I INTRODUCTION PRE-HELLENIC
4II HOMERIC
5III DORIC
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6IV IONIC
7V THE MAIDENS OF THE ACROPOLIS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE IONIC HIMATION
8VI MATERIALS AND ORNAMENTATION
9VII HAIR AND HEAD-DRESS
10VIII FOOTGEAR FOOTGEAR
11IX THE TOILET CONCLUSION
12ENGLISH INDEX
13GREEK INDEX
14Chats on Costume
15PREFACE
16II THE TUNIC
17III THE MANTLE
18IV THE DOUBLET AND HOSE
19VI THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CRINOLINE
20VIII HATS, CAPS, AND BONNETS
21IX THE DRESSING OF THE HAIR, MOUSTACHIOS, AND BEARD
22X BOOTS, SHOES, AND OTHER COVERINGS FOR THE FEET
23What Dress Makes of Us
241897
25Clothing and Health: An Elementary Textbook of Home Making
26Clothing and Health: An Elementary Textbook of Home Making
27PREFACE
28CHAPTER II
29CHAPTER III
30CHAPTER IV
31CHAPTER V
32CHAPTER VI
33THE ELLEN H. RICHARDS HOUSE
34Appropriate Clothes for the High School Girl
35Dress and Look Slender
36Dress and Look Slender
37FOREWORD
38CHAPTER I WHY WOMEN WANT TO LOOK SLENDER
39CHAPTER II THE REAL SECRET OF DRESSING TO LOOK SLENDER
40CHAPTER III THE LITTLE THINGS THAT MAKE THE BIG DIFFERENCES
41CHAPTER IV FOUNDATIONS THAT SLENDERIZE
42CHAPTER V CARDINAL RULES FOR DRESSES THAT CAMOUFLAGE SIZE
43CHAPTER VI ESSENTIAL POINTS IN CUTTING AND FITTING
44CHAPTER VII FABRICS THAT SLENDERIZE
45CHAPTER VIII COLORS THAT SLENDERIZE
46CHAPTER IX THE LINE OF YOUTH AND GRACE
47CHAPTER X THE SMART LINE OF DIGNITY
48CHAPTER XI HATS AND WRAPS THAT SLENDERIZE
49CHAPTER XII LOOKING SLENDER IS AN ART, A NECESSITY, AND A PLEASURE
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