Everywhere around the world, people make daily decisions about what to wear or how to dress. This text presents a systematic approach to analyzing these daily rituals that we all share—not simply the act of putting on clothing, but also cleansing the body and adorning it.

This revised collection of articles from magazines, newspapers, books, and journals expands students' awareness and understanding of what dress is all about. The essays in the text illustrate essential topics, such as dress and sociology, cultural studies, gender, religion, modesty, and technological changes.

This text explores the societal expectations associated with dress and provides students with a working knowledge and appreciation of research techniques that can help them capture the current and future trends in fashion.

This text tells the story of the period from the 1860s to the 1970s, a time when a succession of haute couture designers—most notably, Charles Worth, Paul Poiret, Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli, Christian Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent—were the arbiters of fashion, and their creations were the weapon of choice for power-seeking members of the aristocracy and upper classes.

This collection of reprinted and commissioned articles covers such topics as men's fashion and meaning through history, fashion as masculinity and sexuality, fashion as defiance, fashion as identity, fashion as acculturation, body as fashion, the media and fashion, and fashion as fantasy.

This classic text explains and applies the basic elements of design and aesthetics for a variety of apparel professionals. Using her own theory of the Apparel-Body-Construct—the look or appearance of the body, clothing, and accessories as a unit—the author defines aesthetics in the context of understanding how we perceive dress and our reactions to it.