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.