Defining Dress: Dress as Object, Meaning and Identity

by Amy de la Haye (Editor), Elizabeth Wilson (Editor)

Contained here is an attractive collection of essays, bringing together contemporary research into the history of dress. The essays reflect how garments may be researched as discrete objects, as part of consumer culture, and as components of created meaning which are expressive of personal identity and social belonging.

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First published July 7, 2000

About the author

Amy de la Haye is Professor of Dress History and Curatorship, Rootstein Hopkins Chair, London College of Fashion.