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Looking Flash: Clothing in Aotearoa New Zealand
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Description for Looking Flash: Clothing in Aotearoa New Zealand
Paperback. Discusses the story of the shrinking bathing suit and the evolution of the black singlet. This book on the role of clothes in our history shows the way in which clothes reveal and identify, embody tradition and memory, are both local and global. Editor(s): Labrum, Bronwyn; McKergow, Fiona; Gibson, Stephanie. Num Pages: 280 pages, illustrations (colour section). BIC Classification: 1MBN; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 100 x 100 x 100. Weight in Grams: 400.
The story of the shrinking bathing suit and the evolution of the black singlet are only two of the subjects in this engaging book on the role of clothes in our history. Fourteen historians, museum curators and researchers write about the way in which clothes reveal and identify, embody tradition and memory, are both local and global. They discuss the clothes of marching girls and castaways, the use of the kilt, the story of a Maori cloak and of an Otago farmer's extraordinary collection of 1970s high fashion garments. The book is richly illustrated with fashion photographs, advertisements and cartoons. ... Read more
The story of the shrinking bathing suit and the evolution of the black singlet are only two of the subjects in this engaging book on the role of clothes in our history. Fourteen historians, museum curators and researchers write about the way in which clothes reveal and identify, embody tradition and memory, are both local and global. They discuss the clothes of marching girls and castaways, the use of the kilt, the story of a Maori cloak and of an Otago farmer's extraordinary collection of 1970s high fashion garments. The book is richly illustrated with fashion photographs, advertisements and cartoons. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Auckland University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Auckland, New Zealand
ISBN
9781869403973
SKU
V9781869403973
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-11
About
BRONWYN LABRUM is senior lecturer in the School of Visual and Material Culture at Massey University, Wellington. FIONA MCKERGOW was social history curator at The Science Centre and Manawatu Museum and now cares full-time for her two small children. STEPHANIE GIBSON is a history curator at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
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