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Disseminating dress : Britain's fashion networks, 1600-1970 /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Bloomsbury (Firm)
Other Authors: Halbert, Jade (Editor), Dyer, Serena (Editor), Littlewood, Sophie (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London, UK : Bloomsbury Publishing, [2022]
Subjects:
Fashion > Great Britain > History.
History of fashion,Social & cultural history,British & Irish history.
Fashion.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • List of Plates
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction: Fashion Travels
  • Serena Dyer, De Montfort University, UK, Jade Halbert, University of Huddersfield, UK, and Sophie Littlewood, Welbeck Abbey, UK
  • Part I: Modes of Dissemination
  • 2. Dolled Up: The Material Dissemination of Dress in Early Modern Europe
  • Sophie Pitman, Aalto University, Finland
  • 3. A Shared World of Words? The Circulation and Dissemination of Clothing Descriptions in Eighteenth-Century England
  • Elizabeth Spencer, University of York, UK
  • 4. Fashions of the Day: Materiality, Temporality and the Fashion Plate, 1750-1879
  • Serena Dyer, De Montfort University, UK
  • 5. The Talking Page: Dress Transmission in Jane Austen's Writings
  • Hilary Davidson, University of Sydney, Australia
  • 6. Global Networks of Fashion: The Design and Circulation of British Printed Textiles for Export to West Africa, c.1870-1914
  • Josephine Tierney, University of Warwick, UK
  • 7. Propaganda, Patriotism and Rivalry: How the Interests of the Trade Press Shaped British Fashion Following the Second World War
  • Bethan Bide, University of Leeds, UK
  • 8. Location, London: Promoting British Ready-to-Wear 1959-1966
  • Liz Tregenza, Independent Scholar
  • Part II: Dissemination in Practice
  • 9. Making and Disseminating Doublets in Early Modern Europe
  • Rebecca Unsworth, Birmingham Museums Trust, UK
  • 10. Lady Charlotte Campbell and Fashionable Neoclassicism
  • Amelia Rauser, Franklin and Marshall College, USA
  • 11. Sent to the Other Side of the World: The Fashion for Shetland Fine Lace Knitting in Australia
  • Roslyn Chapman, University of Glasgow, UK
  • 12. Reporting Royal Dress: Queen Alexandra and Royal Image Making
  • Kate Strasdin, Falmouth University, UK
  • 13. Twentieth-Century Clothing Wholesale and the Dissemination of Mass Fashion in Birmingham and the Black Country
  • Jenny Gilbert, University of Wolverhampton, UK
  • 14. Conclusion
  • Serena Dyer, Jade Halbert, and Sophie Littlewood.