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Dress Sense: The Emotional and Sensory Experience of Clothes (Dress, Body, Culture S.) by Donald Clay Johnson and Helen Bradley Foster is a design available to read on EtoBox.
What is Dress Sense: The Emotional and Sensory Experience of Clothes (Dress, Body, Culture S.) about?
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
Who reads Dress Sense: The Emotional and Sensory Experience of Clothes (Dress, Body, Culture S.)?
It is typically read by artists, cooks, musicians and hobbyists working from how-to references.
Common subject areas: arts, cooking, music, crafts.
- Author
- Donald Clay Johnson and Helen Bradley Foster
- Publisher
- Berg Publishers; Bloomsbury Academic
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781474263436
- Category
- design
- Subjects
- Folklore, Anthropology, Design
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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