This book puts the material back into clothing. In recent years social scientists have become increasingly interested in theories of fashion, but have rarely di

Addressing the subject of clothing in relation to such fundamental issues as national identity, social distinction, gender, the body, religion and politics, Clo

"This should become a core text for second year courses in sociology and cultural studies... it synthesizes a vast body of literature and a complex range of deb

Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things.

The period since 1945 has been a transformative era for the fashion industry. Over the course of seventy years, the fashion world has moved from celebrating the