Fashioning the frame

Description:

The body has been the focus of recent critical attention, but the clothed body less so. In answering the need to theorize dress, this book provides an overview of recent scholarship & presents a theory of what dress means in relation to the body.

subjects: Clothing and dress,  Costume,  Fashion,  Human Body,  Psychological aspects,  Psychological aspects of Clothing and dress,  Psychological aspects of Costume,  Psychological aspects of Fashion,  Social aspects,  Social aspects of Clothing and dress,  Social aspects of Human body,  Social aspects of the Human body,  Symbolic aspects,  Symbolic aspects of Clothing and dress,  Symbolic aspects of Costume,  Fashion, history