Dress Memory

Author : Robyn Gibson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789462099531

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The Memory of Clothes by Robyn Gibson Pdf

Once hanging static in a wardrobe or folded away in a trunk, in recent times clothes have found themselves thrown into the spotlight. The crowds that are drawn to large scale fashion exhibitions staged with increasing frequency in galleries and museums around the world offer glimpses into the meaning that we attach to these items of clothing. Apart from their aesthetic value, clothes have the ability to evoke issues of identity, of the relation of self to body and self to the world. We are able to find ourselves through the experiences of delving into our wardrobes and remembering. Clothes are thus layered with meaning since they have the power to act as memory prompts. Woven into their fabric are traces of past experiences; stitched into their seams are links to people we have loved and lost. Viewed as visual objects, clothing is not frivolous, flippant or foolish. In telling and talking about clothes, we reveal much about ourselves, our lives and the experiences that we drape around our bodies. Whether bought or handmade, passed down or reconstructed, clothes help us to construct meaning as we remember those things in our lives that matter.

Author : Lorelei Vashti
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781743311011

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Dress, Memory by Lorelei Vashti Pdf

As we grow older, how do we know what to let go of and what to keep?..Lorelei started collecting dresses in her twenties and found that every time she wore one it became more significant to her. From falling in love for the first time to playing in a band, from starting a career to moving overseas, every dress soon had a memory stitched into it, and she became as attached to each one as if they were the events and people themselves...But what happens when the wardrobe gets full? Should you let go of the dresses you've outgrown, or try to hold on to them forever?..'Dress, Memory' is about a decade in dresses. Perceptive and poignant, humorous and heartwarming, it's the story of growing up and growing into yourself. It's about trying things on until you find the perfect fit.

Author : Alison Slater,Susan Atkin,Elizabeth Kealy-Morris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350153806

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Memories of Dress by Alison Slater,Susan Atkin,Elizabeth Kealy-Morris Pdf

Memories of clothing feature prominently in auto/biographies, yet traditionally they have not been subjected to the same level of academic scrutiny as other sources. Memories of Dress redresses this imbalance by bringing auto/biographical memories to the centre of a new methodology for understanding fashion history, material culture, and other disciplines. Presenting a comprehensive overview of theoretical and practice-based approaches, the book invites readers to explore the relations between clothing and memory through diverse examples ranging from oral histories of Madchester men and Hungarian socialist sewing, to a quilt-making autoethnography into the complexities of American racial heritage and imagined memories within museum collections. Chapters by leading and emerging experts consider the ways in which dress is remembered and the ways that memories and nostalgia in turn influence everyday dress practices, unpicking the meanings and motivations-both collective and public, personal and private-behind the clothes we wear in different times, places and life stages; and the impact of class, gender, ethnicity, and disability on material identities. Uniquely weaving personal recollection with theory, this multidisciplinary book offers new ways of understanding clothing, material culture, and memory.

Author : Vittorio Ferretti
Publisher : Springer-Verlag
Page : 1394 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642801310

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Wörterbuch der Datentechnik / Dictionary of Computing by Vittorio Ferretti Pdf

Der FERRETTI bietet mehr als eine Übersetzungshilfe für deutsche und englische Fachbegriffe. 92.000 Stichwörter mit Kurzdefinitionen und Synonymen machen diese aktuelle Teilausgabe des erfolgreichen "Wörterbuch der Elektronik, Datentechnik und Telekommunikation" zum einzigartig umfassenden Nachschlagewerk der gesamten Informatik. Die 44.000 deutschen und 48.000 englischen Einträge decken zusätzlich die Hauptbegriffe der angrenzenden Fachgebiete und des allgemeinen Sprachgebrauchs ab. Zu insgesamt 94 Fachgebieten lassen sich alle datentechnischen Fragen schnell und kompetent lösen - ein schier unerschöpflicher Fundus für jeden, der hier nachschlägt.

Author : Ann Rosalind Jones,Peter Stallybrass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Design
ISBN : 0521786630

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Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory by Ann Rosalind Jones,Peter Stallybrass Pdf

This 2001 interpretation of literature and arts reveals how clothing and costume were critical to Renaissance culture.

Author : Sandra Weber,Claudia Mitchell
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0820461180

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Not Just Any Dress by Sandra Weber,Claudia Mitchell Pdf

If dresses could talk, what stories might they tell? This compelling collection of short stories, essays, and poems features dress as the structural grounding for autobiographical accounts from women's lives in Western society. Often personal in nature, these «dress stories» point unfailingly to matters of social and cultural import. Some of the dresses described inhabit the popular imagination: the little girl dress, the communion dress, the school uniform, the prom dress, the wedding dress, the little black dress, and the burial dress. Beyond the semiotic, tactile, and visual aspects of the dresses themselves, the narratives delve into what dresses reveal about fundamental aspects of human experience: identity, embodiment, relationship, and mortality. Bought or made, then worn, forgotten, remembered, re-constructed, and re-interpreted, each dress offers a new glimpse into how we construct meaning in our daily lives, and how dresses serve to reinforce or resist social structures and cultural expectations.

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1908 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Patents
ISBN : PSU:000065837177

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Phillip A. Laplante
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3540648356

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Comprehensive Dictionary of Electrical Engineering by Phillip A. Laplante Pdf

Complete coverage of all fields of electrical engineering. The book provides workable definitions for practicing engineers, while serving as a reference and research tool for students, and offering practical information for scientists and engineers in other disciplines. Areas examined include applied electrical, microwave, control, power, and digital systems engineering, plus device electronics.

Author : Noemí Pereira-Ares
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319613970

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Fashion, Dress and Identity in South Asian Diaspora Narratives by Noemí Pereira-Ares Pdf

This book is the first book-length study to explore the sartorial politics of identity in the literature of the South Asian diaspora in Britain. Using fashion and dress as the main focus of analysis, and linking them with a myriad of identity concerns, the book takes the reader on a journey from the eighteenth century to the new millennium, from early travel account by South Asian writers to contemporary British-Asian fictions. Besides sartorial readings of other key authors and texts, the book provides an in-depth exploration of Kamala Markandaya’s The Nowhere Man (1972), Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), Meera Syal’s Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee (1999) and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003).This work examines what an analysis of dress contributes to the interpretation of the featured texts, their contexts and identity politics, but it also considers what literature has added to past and present discussions on the South Asian dressed body in Br itain. Endowed with an interdisciplinary emphasis, the book is of interest to students and academics in a variety of fields, including literary criticism, socio-cultural studies and fashion theory.

Author : Zoe Devlin
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015069036971

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Remembering the Dead in Anglo-Saxon England by Zoe Devlin Pdf

This study uses sociological theories of personal memory to show how Anglo-Saxon burial practices enabled the grieving process, and ensured the remembrance of the dead.

Author : Alexander Horstmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015055813912

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Class, Culture and Space by Alexander Horstmann Pdf

In the present social and cultural transformation of South Thailand's cultural politics, ideologies involving the family, gender and home provide the cultural codes in social dramas of the state, the media and social and religious movements. This study looks at micropolitics and the nesting of the political action of everyday life in larger, ultimately global structures of power. Exploring the making of class, culture and space, the production and consumption of culture is understood as work which involves the constant negotiation of boundaries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Patents
ISBN : PSU:000066179993

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1340 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015160273

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Dress & Vanity Fair by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joanna Figueroa
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781118224861

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With Fabric and Thread by Joanna Figueroa Pdf

More than 20 inspired quilting and sewing patterns As a generation of mostly self-taught, creative women takes to the world of fabric, quilting and sewing are joining forces in a way that they never have before. Long-time quilters, committed to their craft for decades, are starting to experiment with a bit of home sewing or simple sewing for their grandchildren. The younger side of the sewing community is embracing the world of patchwork and quilting, a world that once seemed inaccessible or even undesirable to younger seamstresses. With Fabric & Thread seamlessly bridges the language and intimidation gap between these two crafts and delivers a unique collection of projects that appeal to sewers and quilters alike. Featuring 20 new projects, With Fabric & Thread marries the nomenclature of both sewing and quilting to create an effortless set of instructions that anyone can follow. Plus, a special section features six patterns that can be accomplished two different ways: one using sewing techniques and one using quilting techniques. The result is two unique looks from a single pattern. Provides an excellent stepping-off point for sewers learning to quilt, and quilters learning to sew Chic projects, well-styled photos, and modern illustrations speak to this increasingly unified audience Good, basic, understandable instructions If you're a quilter experimenting with sewing, or vice versa, the beautiful designs in With Fabric & Thread give you everything you need to bring these two crafts together to make unique and inspired projects.

Author : Valerie Luu,Andria Lo
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781452175836

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Chinatown Pretty by Valerie Luu,Andria Lo Pdf

Chinatown Pretty features beautiful portraits and heartwarming stories of trend-setting seniors across six Chinatowns. Andria Lo and Valerie Luu have been interviewing and photographing Chinatown's most fashionable elders on their blog and Instagram, Chinatown Pretty, since 2014. Chinatown Pretty is a signature style worn by pòh pohs (grandmas) and gùng gungs (grandpas) everywhere—but it's also a life philosophy, mixing resourcefulness, creativity, and a knack for finding joy even in difficult circumstances. • Photos span Chinatowns in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, and Vancouver. • The style is a mix of modern and vintage, high and low, handmade and store bought clothing. • This is a celebration of Chinese American culture, active old-age, and creative style. Chinatown Pretty shares nuggets of philosophical wisdom and personal stories about immigration and Chinese-American culture. This book is great for anyone looking for advice on how to live to a ripe old age with grace and good humor—and, of course, on how to stay stylish. • This book will resonate with photography buffs, fashionistas, and Asian Americans of all ages. • Chinatown Pretty has been featured by Vogue.com, San Francisco Chronicle, Design Sponge, Rookie, Refinery29, and others. • With a textured cover and glossy bellyband, this beautiful volume makes a deluxe gift. • Add it to the shelf with books like Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton, Advanced Style by Ari Seth Cohen, and Fruits by Shoichi Aoki.