Dress Sense: Emotional and Sensory Experiences of the Body and Clothes

by Helen Bradley Foster (Editor)

Dress Sense explores the importance of the senses and emotions in the way people dress, and how they attach value and significance to clothing. Inspired by the work of Joanne B. Eicher, contributors offer different multi-disciplinary perspectives on this key and unexplored topic in dress and sensory anthropology. The essays present historical, contemporary and global views, from British imperial dress in India, to revolutionary Socialist dress. Issues of body and identity are brought to the fore in the sexual power of Ghanian women's waistbeads, the way cross-dressers feel about their clothing, and how the latest three-dimensional body-scanning technology affects people's perception of themselves and their bodies. For students and researchers of dress and anthropology, Dress Sense will be invaluable in understanding the cross-cultural, emotional and sensual experience of dress and clothing.

Genres: Fashion

208 pages, Paperback

First published February 5, 2007

Reviews

[Ess Dee · Rating 5 out of 5]

-like Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body, and Culture, it presents the reader with a cross section of very interesting research papers whose topics span many cultures and regions of the world. Because the topic of dress is inherently interdisciplinary, the writers come from many different fields. I wish a book on the subject of "the emotional and sensory experiences of the body and clothes" based on contemporary American experience, written by a psychologist or maybe by a psychologist/sociologist duo.