Fashion Foundations

Early Writings on Fashion and Dress

By: Kim K. P. Johnson (Editor), Susan J. Torntore (Editor), Joanne B. Eicher (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 September 2010 | Edition Number 1

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Although it can be difficult to think of fashion in anything other than a contemporary context, as a concept it is hardly new. Costume historians trace the birth of fashion back to the thirteenth century and writings on fashion date back as early as the sixteenth century when Michel de Montaigne pondered its origins, thereby setting in motion a chain of inquiry that has continued to intrigue writers for centuries. This key text reprints classic fashion writings, all of which have had a profound if perhaps untrumpeted impact on our understanding and approach to modern day dress - from the psychology of clothes through to collective fashion trends. Why do we wear clothes? What do they say about our self-awareness and body image? How can we 'fashion' new identities through what we wear? Seminal fashion statements by Montaigne, William Hazlitt, Herbert Spencer, Thorstein B. Veblen, Adam Smith, Herbert Blumer, and Georg Simmel answer these questions and many more. Full of vital fashion treasures that have often been ignored, this book fills a major gap in the history of the discipline and will serve as an essential teaching text for years to come.

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'It [Fashion Foundations] goes beyond the basic expectation of a book in the 'foundations' of a discipline that provides merely an understanding of the roots of current thought, and instead, as it is organized through current thematic concerns, allows a rethinking of the issues that govern current fashion theory in a manner that is generally interdisciplinary.' Sophie Woodward, University College for the Creative Arts/Nottingham Trent University, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Vol 13, No 3, Sep 2007)

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
References	p. 4
Dressing the Body	p. 5
Dressing the Body	p. 7
References	p. 14
Orginis and Motives	p. 15
Of the Custom of Wearing Clothes	p. 15
The Significance of Clothes	p. 18
Dress	p. 21
Customs and Beliefs: Ceremonial	p. 27
Dress	p. 29
Costumes and Ideologies	p. 34
Physical Connections between the Body and Dress	p. 37
The Psychology of Clothing	p. 37
an Essay concerning Man and His Relation to the World	p. 40
Some Aspects of the Early Sense of Self	p. 43
Health Issues and Dress Reform	p. 51
Fashion in Deformity	p. 51
The Science of Dress	p. 54
The Reform Dress	p. 59
The Development and Function of Clothing	p. 63
Fashioning Identity	p. 69
Fashioning Identity	p. 69
References	p. 72
Establishing Identity	p. 73
On Fashion	p. 73
Let Us Have a National Costume	p. 77
The Psychology of Woman's Dress	p. 81
Appearance Management	p. 85
Remarks on the Psychology of Clothes	p. 85
Psychology of Dress	p. 87
The "f" Word	p. 91
The "f" Word	p. 91
References	p. 96
Fashion as Change	p. 97
Development in Dress	p. 97
Badges and Costumes	p. 100
Fashion	p. 104
Motivation in Fashion	p. 107
Fashion	p. 112
Some Conclusions	p. 114
Predicting Fashion Change	p. 119
On the Nature of Fashion	p. 119
Fashion as Collective and Consumer Behavior	p. 125
Fashion Movements	p. 125
Of the Influence of Custom and Fashion upon Our Notions of Beauty and Deformity	p. 127
The Economic Theory of Woman's Dress	p. 129
Dress as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture	p. 132
A Psychological Analysis of Fashion Motivation	p. 136
Chronological Annotated Bibliography (1575-1940)	p. 141
Index	p. 153
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