Dress, Fashion and Technology: From Prehistory to the Present

by Phyllis G. Tortora

Book Overview

Technology has been an essential factor in the production of dress and the cultures of fashion throughout human history. Structured chronologically from prehistory to the present day, this is the first broad study of the complex relationship between dress and technology.

Over the course of human history, dress-making and fashion technology has changed beyond recognition: from needles and human hands in the ancient world to complex 20th-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085785190X
• ISBN13: 9780857851901
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"