The way we look : dress and aesthetics /

DeLong, Marilyn Revell, 1939-

The way we look : dress and aesthetics / Marilyn Revell DeLong. - 2nd edition. - New York : Fairchild, 1998. - xvii, 350 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Previous ed.: 1987.

Includes bibliographical references, glossary and index.

The author looks at such topics as aesthetic response to clothing, form and meaning in fashion, the apparel-body-construct and the body as a structure. Examples are given in words and photographs, from Western catwalks to traditional dress from Asia and Africa.

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Costume design--Philosophy.
Clothing and dress--Cross-cultural studies.