The Visible Self: Fashion and Dress Across Cultures

by Sandra Lee Evenson and Joanne B. Eicher

All over the world, people get dressed, mostly for the same reasons. Why, then, do we look so different from each other? The answers lie in the constellations of factors that contribute to the human condition, from climate to conformity, gender expression to race and ethnicity.
Beginning with the body as the organizing principle around which to study dress, this 50th anniversary edition of The Visible Self makes sense of humans as biological,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501380931
• ISBN13: 9781501380938
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Fairchild Books
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 11.0"