Clothing: A Global History
- ISBN-10
- 0745631878
- ISBN-13
- 9780745631875
- Series
- Clothing
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 221
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-07-08
- Publisher
- Polity
- Author
- Robert Ross
Description
* Broad and engaging overview suitable for undergraduates in history, anthropology, cultural studies and fashion studies, as well as the general reader. * Explains why we wear what we do, why most people in the world now dress very similarly and why those who resist Western dress do so.
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- 2002-06-24
- 608 pages
- Paperback
- McGraw-Hill Education
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