Material Strategies Dress and Gender in Historial Perspective [Paperback]

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• Broad in scope – covers women, men, social groupings and nations from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
  
• Rich in detail – incorporates illustrations that provide visual evidence for gendered strategies of dress.
  
• Combines perspectives from design and textile history, business history, cultural anthropology, social history, art history and cultural history.
  
• Considers ‘material strategies’ in relation to production and consumption, the public and the private, the body and sexuality, and national identity.
  
• Written in a jargon-free style, making it accessible to readers from a wide range of backgrounds.

Part I: Dress, Textiles and Social Transitions in Pre-industrial Europe:.

1. Fashion, Time and the Consumption of a Renaissance Man in Germany: The Costume Book of Matthaus Schwarz of Augsburg, 1496-1564: Gabriele Mentges (University of Dortmund).

2. Reflections on Gender and Status Distinction: An Analysis of the Liturgical Textiles Recorded in Mid-Sixteenth-Century London: Maria Hayward (University of Southampton).

Part II: Identity and Eroticism, Consumption and Production, from the Early Seventeenth to the Mid-Twentieth Century:.

1. Following Suit: Men, Masculinity and Gendered Practices in the Clothing Trade in Leeds, England, 1890-1940: Katrina Hl“*