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Re-orienting fashion : the globalization of Asian dress /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Niessen, S. A., Leshkowich, Ann Marie, Jones, Carla
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2003.
Series:Dress, body, culture.
Subjects:
Costume > Asia.
Fashion > Asia.
Clothing and dress > Cross-cultural studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the globalization of Asian dress: Re-orienting fashion or re-orientalizing Asia? / Carla Jones and Ann Marie Leshkowich
  • 1. Three scenarios from Batak clothing history: Designing participation in the global fashion trajectory 49 / Sandra Niessen
  • 2. The Ao Dai goes global: how international influences and female entrepreneurs have shaped Vietnam's "national costume" 79 / Ann Marie Leshkowich
  • 3. Korean alterations: nationalism, social consciousness, and "traditional" clothing 117 / Rebecca Ruhlen
  • 4. Designing diasporic markets: Asian fashion entrepreneurs in London 139 / Parminder Bhachu
  • 5. National colors: ethnic minorities in Vietnamese public imagery / Hjorleifur R. Jonsson and Nora A. Taylor
  • 6. Dress for sukses: fashioning femininity and nationality in urban Indonesia 185 / Carla Jones
  • 7. Fashion-nation: a Japanese globalization experience and a Hong Kong dilemma 215 / Lise Skov
  • Afterword: re-orienting fashion theory 243 / Sandra Niessen.