Maternity Fashion

Author : Lydia Semler,Jana Hill,Ilea Magdelina Bonner
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781000957471

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A History of Maternity Wear by Lydia Semler,Jana Hill,Ilea Magdelina Bonner Pdf

A History of Maternity Wear: Design, Patterns, and Construction explores pregnancy clothing worn throughout the decades, providing historical information, images, and patterns. Filled with photos showing extant attire, with intricate details and sample patterns that can be recreated to scale, this book examines how maternity clothes were constructed, provides historical context, and aids readers in designing their own maternity garments. Each chapter includes examples of commonly worn maternity styles from a number of regions of the English-speaking world, with information from the United States, Britain, Australia, and Canada. The book concludes with a chapter on historically accurate underpinnings from the 17th century to the present day. A History of Maternity Wear: Design, Patterns, and Construction is written for costume professionals looking to research historically accurate characters and costumes for production, as well as fashion historians and costume enthusiasts.

Author : José Blanco F.,Patricia Kay Hunt-Hurst,Heather Vaughan Lee,Mary Doering
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1679 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610693103

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Clothing and Fashion [4 volumes] by José Blanco F.,Patricia Kay Hunt-Hurst,Heather Vaughan Lee,Mary Doering Pdf

This unique four-volume encyclopedia examines the historical significance of fashion trends, revealing the social and cultural connections of clothing from the precolonial times to the present day. This sweeping overview of fashion and apparel covers several centuries of American history as seen through the lens of the clothes we wear—from the Native American moccasin to Manolo Blahnik's contribution to stiletto heels. Through four detailed volumes, this work delves into what people wore in various periods in our country's past and why—from hand-crafted family garments in the 1600s, to the rough clothing of slaves, to the sophisticated textile designs of the 21st century. More than 100 fashion experts and clothing historians pay tribute to the most notable garments, accessories, and people comprising design and fashion. The four volumes contain more than 800 alphabetical entries, with each volume representing a different era. Content includes fascinating information such as that beginning in 1619 through 1654, every man in Virginia was required to plant a number of mulberry trees to support the silk industry in England; what is known about the clothing of enslaved African Americans; and that there were regulations placed on clothing design during World War II. The set also includes color inserts that better communicate the visual impact of clothing and fashion across eras.

Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317451679

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World Clothing and Fashion by Mary Ellen Snodgrass Pdf

Taking a global, multicultural, social, and economic perspective, this work explores the diverse and colourful history of human attire. From prehistoric times to the age of globalization, articles cover the evolution of clothing utility, style, production, and commerce, including accessories (shoes, hats, gloves, handbags, and jewellery) for men, women, and children. Dress for different climates, occupations, recreational activities, religious observances, rites of passages, and other human needs and purposes - from hunting and warfare to sports and space exploration - are examined in depth and detail. Fashion and design trends in diverse historical periods, regions and countries, and social and ethnic groups constitute a major area of coverage, as does the evolution of materials (from animal fur to textiles to synthetic fabrics) and production methods (from sewing and weaving to industrial manufacturing and computer-aided design). Dress as a reflection of social status, intellectual and artistic trends, economic conditions, cultural exchange, and modern media marketing are recurring themes. Influential figures and institutions in fashion design, industry and manufacturing, retail sales, production technologies, and related fields are also covered.

Author : Doretta Davanzo Poli
Publisher : Zanfi-Logos
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Design
ISBN : UOM:39015043197279

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Maternity Fashion by Doretta Davanzo Poli Pdf

Author : Valerie Steele
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781474264709

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The Berg Companion to Fashion by Valerie Steele Pdf

- An essential reference for students, curators and scholars of fashion, cultural studies, and the expanding range of disciplines that see fashion as imbued with meaning far beyond the material. - Over 300 in-depth entries covering designers, articles of clothing, key concepts and styles. - Edited and introduced by Valerie Steele, a scholar who has revolutionized the study of fashion, and who has been described by The Washington Post as one of "fashion's brainiest women." Derided by some as frivolous, even dangerous, and celebrated by others as art, fashion is anything but a neutral topic. Behind the hype and the glamour is an industry that affects all cultures of the world. A potent force in the global economy, fashion is also highly influential in everyday lives, even amongst those who may feel impervious. This handy volume is a one-stop reference for anyone interested in fashion - its meaning, history and theory. From Avedon to Codpiece, Dandyism to the G-String, Japanese Fashion to Subcultures, Trickle down to Zoot Suit, The Berg Companion to Fashion provides a comprehensive overview of this most fascinating of topics and will serve as the benchmark guide to the subject for many years to come.

Author : Vicki Iovine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781416524724

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The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy by Vicki Iovine Pdf

Four-time delivery room veteran lovine provides straight talk about those little things that are too strange or embarrassing to ask anyone about, practical tips, and hilarious takes on everything pregnant.

Author : Laura Snelgrove
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350276710

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Fashion and Motherhood by Laura Snelgrove Pdf

Motherhood, whether achieved through biological or other means, is not a rare experience; dressing oneself, even less so. The two phenomena are intimately linked, as both occur on and to the private body, and are also fully subject to social pressures and the changing tides of public opinion. They also, for anyone who experiences motherhood, define one another and work together to shape an individual's identity and place in their culture. This rich collection explores the essential question of how motherhood and fashion interact, interrogating their relationships to power, misogyny, temporality, longing and embodiment, among other themes. The 13 essays examine representations on film, in popular print and literature; they use images, narrative and material evidence from the past to excavate the historical cleavages in how mothers have been expected to hide, display, share and sacrifice their bodies. An international range of scholars explores the 19th to the 21st centuries, tracing how fashion and motherhood have operated as powerfully interdependent experiences and continue to determine how women are judged and corralled, yet also find meaning, connection and strength.

Author : Joanne Barrett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781501325090

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Designing Your Fashion Portfolio by Joanne Barrett Pdf

For the fashion designer seeking employment, a well-prepared portfolio is an essential marketing tool. Designing Your Fashion Portfolio: From Concept to Presentation uses the design process to guide students through conceptualization and assembly of a fashion design portfolio that will communicate their talents and vision as designers. The richly illustrated text helps students assemble their work and organize it into a compelling story of their artistic talents and market savvy. In the process, students learn to evaluate their skills and identify their interests so that they can focus on building collections for their chosen target markets. The author's fashion design portfolio system enables designers to tailor their portfolios for each client throughout their careers.

Author : Anita Naik
Publisher : Piatkus
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780748118663

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The Lazy Girl's Guide To A Blissful Pregnancy by Anita Naik Pdf

THE LAZY GIRL'S GUIDE TO A BLISSFUL PREGNANCY is your guide to getting pregnant, being pregnant and life after pregnancy. It's for all girls who want to find the less stressed way to be pregnant but are too busy to wade through all the books, leaflets and advice. It's about the stuff that's tricky such as how to work when you have 24 hour fatigue and morning sickness. And the stuff that's annoying such as how to deal with the myriad of medical, anecdotal and personal advice thrown at you. But most of all THE LAZY GIRL'S GUIDE TO A BLISSFUL PREGNANCY is about the parts of being pregnant that secretly worry you - pregnancy sex, first time parenting, meeting your new baby and how to avoid turning your chic house into a large oversized playroom! Crammed full of: * Expert advice on pre and post pregnancy fashion and beauty * Essential mum tips on first time motherhood, and surviving labour * Smart advice on the emotional, physical and lifestyle changes of pregnancy THE LAZY GIRL'S GUIDE TO A BLISSFUL PREGNANCY is your comprehensive and down-to-earth guide to staying sane through nine months and beyond.

Author : Liz Lange
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Design
ISBN : 0609809172

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Liz Lange's Maternity Style by Liz Lange Pdf

When designer Liz Lange was thinking about getting pregnant for the first time, and watching her friends struggle with the available choices in maternity wear, she was shocked. With no shortage of baggy tops, gaudy bows, and pants with big panels, Liz was faced with the frustrating truth: “fashion” and “pregnancy” do not always make a compatible pair. Luckily for pregnant women all over, the result was Liz’s renowned collection of classic, comfortable maternity wear. Now, Liz Lange’s Maternity Style presents all of Liz’s personal and professional insights for women who refuse to relinquish chic simply because they are expecting. In her direct, upbeat voice, Liz shows how to make the most of a “difficult, fashion-challenged time” without replacing your entire wardrobe. Celebrating the swelling belly so many maternity clothes attempt to camouflage, her tasteful approach shows pregnant women how to dress both to accentuate and to slim their changing bodies (including those pesky postpartum months spent working your way back into your favorite jeans). Liz Lange’s Maternity Style provides advice on everything from color choice to accessories, casual Fridays to holiday parties, exercise or lounge wear to weekend staples—all building from a carefully selected wardrobe focused on mixing and matching, sensibility and style. Lively illustrations, fun celebrity photos, and great features, like must-have pieces and splurge vs. save items, all add up to a friendly, eminently useful, and fun-to-read guide. A much-needed handbook for the roller coaster ride that is pregnancy, Liz Lange’s Maternity Style will help you keep your sense of style and self.

Author : Jack W. Plunkett
Publisher : Plunkett Research, Ltd.
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12
Category : Retail trade
ISBN : 9781593921392

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Plunkett's Retail Industry Almanac by Jack W. Plunkett Pdf

A market research guide to the retail industry - a tool for strategic planning, competitive intelligence, employment searches or financial research. It contains trends, statistical tables, and an industry glossary. It includes one page profiles of retail industry firms, companies and organizations. It also includes addresses and phone numbers.

Author : Laura Tropp
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781440828102

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A Womb with a View by Laura Tropp Pdf

Through history, interviews, anecdotes, and popular culture, this book examines pregnancy from all angles, covering changing expectations for pregnancy; new definitions of when fatherhood begins; the implications of new, earlier connections to the fetus; and the political, economic, and social consequences to the public. In the 21st century, pregnancy is more than a biological event—it's a cultural phenomenon. A Womb with a View: America's Growing Public Interest in Pregnancy addresses how media influence and changes in society have exposed and commoditized pregnancy like never before, while technology has enabled us to share, record, and preserve all aspects of the pregnancy experience. Each chapter of the book focuses on an aspect of the pregnancy experience, including efforts to peer in and bond with the fetus, the various ways of obtaining advice, the evolving role of expectant fathers, how pregnancy is depicted and treated in popular culture, and branding and marketing to pregnant couples. Interviews with those marketing products and services to pregnant women reveal how pregnancy is now "big business," while real-life stories from pregnant women and images from television and film serve to illustrate our culture's fascination with pregnancy.

Author : Annessa Ann Babic,Tanfer Emin Tunc
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443814560

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The Globetrotting Shopaholic by Annessa Ann Babic,Tanfer Emin Tunc Pdf

The thrust of the literature on consumer space and society focuses on product labeling, marketing techniques and approaches to branding, as well as how mass consumer culture has reshaped individuals' interaction with needs and desires. Globetrotting Shopaholics departs from this current discourse by examining both consumption venues and the cultural, political and social reasons why we consume. It elucidates international trends in consumption politics, and how they impact the creation of consumer spaces, which, in this book, takes the form of numerous global loci including Canada's West Edmonton Mall, Japanese theme parks, shopping venues in the Philippines, and expat boutiques in Budapest. Using a wide range of epistemological frameworks including cultural ethnography, historical analysis, literary theory, sociological dissection, anthropological examination, and philosophical ruminations, this collection conveys how material objects and lifestyles are accumulated and represented internationally, and how consumer goods and spaces define who we are as human beings.

Author : M. Nash
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137292155

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Making 'Postmodern' Mothers by M. Nash Pdf

Based on interviews with pregnant women, this book provides a multi-disciplinary empirical account of pregnant embodiment and how it relates to wider sociological and feminist discourses about gender, bodies, 'fitness', 'fat', celebrity and motherhood.

Author : Robyn Longhurst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134237470

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Maternities by Robyn Longhurst Pdf

Over the past decade geographers have shown a growing interest in 'the body' as an important co-ordinate of subjectivity and as a way of understanding further relationships between people, place and space. To date, however geographers have published little on what is one of, if not the, most important of all bodies - bodies that conceive, give birth and nurture other bodies. It is time that feminist, social, and cultural geographers contributed more to debates about maternal bodies. This book offers a series of windows on the ways in which maternal bodies influence, and are influenced by, social and spatial processes. Topics covered include women ‘coming out’ as pregnant at work, changing fashion for pregnant women, being disabled and pregnant, the politics of home versus hospital birth, breastfeeding practices that sit outside the norm, women who are constructed as ‘bad’ mothers, and ‘e-mums’ (mothers who go on-line).