Fashion Through History : Costumes, Symbols, Communication (Volume I).

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One -- Dress and Culture in the Hittite Empire and during the Late Hittite Period according to Rock Reliefs -- Clothing in Medieval Scandinavia -- Court Clothes of the Sixteenth Century in the Romanian Principalities -- Poupées de Mode -- Foreign Travelers on Romanian Clothing in Eighteenth Century Wallachia and Moldavia -- Glamour and Style in Mid-Nineteenth Century Russia -- Chapter Two -- Fashion and Trends at the Tsar's Court from Peter the Great to Nicholas II -- Uniforms and Hats -- Leisure and Fashion in Transylvania at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- Between Tradition and Modernism -- The Decline of the Habsburg Empire through its Fashion -- Chapter Three -- La Maison Moscou -- Dress of a New Man -- From Sweatpants to Mini-Skirt -- Chapter Four -- Imagery of Cathay -- The National Dimension of Fashion -- Greece -- Dress and Identity -- The Circassians (Adyghe) -- Cultural Identity and Fashion -- Costumes and Customs as Modes of Identification in the Balkan Peninsula -- The Romanian Traditional Blouse Ia -- Chapter Five -- The Color Blue in the Liturgical Vestments of the Middle Ages -- The Relationship between Clothing and Religious Identity for Monks and Hermits in the Middle Ages -- Chasubles and Cassocks -- The Reform of Ecclesiastical Clothing and the Vatican II Council -- Turkey's Headscarf Issue Unveiled -- Chapter Six -- Court of Miracles, Charity, Contempt -- Beat is Rebellion. Beat is Rhythm. Beat is Fashion -- Haute Couture and Science Fiction -- The Tattoo Trend and Ephemeral Appeal -- Chapter Seven -- Fashionability and Comfort -- Ethical Fashion as a Post-Postmodern Phenomenon -- The Cosmetics Industry -- Chapter Eight -- A History of Waste -- Fausto Squillace -- The Trans-Disciplinarity of Fashion Theory -- C. Garve and N. Elias -- How is Fashion Possible?.

The Contemporary Fashion System -- Fashion as a "Scientific Poem" -- When Crisis is Fashionable -- Fashion and Modernity -- The Laws of Fashion -- Real Clothing and Performativity -- Chapter Nine -- Cool and the Gang -- Habits of Power in Period/Fantasy TV Series -- Politeness and Impoliteness in Fashion Advertisements in Spanish -- Slow Motion -- Fashion Brand Searchability.

This collection arises from an international fashion conference held at Sapienza University in Rome, Italy, in May 2015. It is dedicated to one of the main indicators of social change, fashion, analysed within various scientific fields, historical periods, and geographical areas. It offers a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the world of clothes, starting from a historical perspective, religious clothes, and traditional costumes, and then exploring fashion theories and more recent approaches and developments in the media and advertisements. The book analyses the clothing of various cultures, including the Hittite peoples and the less explored fashion of Eastern Europe, and it deals with craft traditions and national costume in different areas, including China, Greece, Romania and Georgia. It also investigates the style of marginalized groups and youth movements and the interpretation of fashion in the studies and writings of sociologists, philosophers and linguists, such as Fausto Squillace and Christian Garve.

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