Colors in fashion /

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Imprint:	London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc, 2017. ©2017
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 227 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Language:	English
Subject:	Fashion -- Philosophy. Colors -- Psychological aspects. Colors -- Psychological aspects. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12349835

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Other authors / contributors:	Faiers, Jonathan, editor. Bulgarella, Mary Westerman, editor.
ISBN:	9781474273718 1474273718 9781474273695 1474273696 9781474273688 1474273688 9781474273701 147427370X 9781350077409
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	Color speaks a powerful cultural language, displaying political, sexual, and economic messages that, throughout history, have shown how we relate to ourselves and our world. This ground-breaking collection is the first to interrogate how color's manifestation through fashionable and ceremonial dress has played a significant role in the formation of society, performing dialogues of social acceptance and exclusion, convention and subversion. From the use of white in pioneering feminism and the French postwar penchant for black, to mystical scarlet broadcloth and the transformation of arsenic-laden green from consumer favorite to sexual deviant, this book shows that color in dress is never straightforward and is as mutable, nuanced, and varied as color itself. Divided into four thematic parts - solidarity, power, innovation, and desire - each section highlights the often violent, emotional, and complex histories of color in dress across geographical, temporal and cultural boundaries.
Other form:	Print version: Colors in fashion. London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc, 2017 9781474273688

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Part 1. Color and Solidarity
1. Color as Theme in the Ebony Fashion Fair
2. Purity and Parity: The White Dress of the Suffrage Movement in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
3. Birds of the Same "Color" Flock Together: Color as Expression of Identity and Solidarity in Aso-Ebi Cloth of the Yoruba
4. Contradictory Colors: Tricolor in Vichy France's Fashion Culture
Part 2. Color and Power
5. Dress and Color at the Thai Court
6. 'Gold and Silver by Night': Queen Alexandra: A Life in Color
7. Lord Boston's Court Uniform: A Story of Color, Politics and the Psychology of Belonging
8. Yellow is the New Red, or Clothing the Recession and How the Shade of Shame Became Chic
Part 3. Color and Innovation
9. Color Before Technicolor: Colorized Fashion Films of the Silent Era
10. Color as Concept: From International Klein Blue to Viktor & Rolf's "Bluescreen"
11. Tainted Love: Oscar Wilde's Toxic Green Carnation, Queerness and Chromophobia
12. Starlit Skies Blue versus Durindone Blue
Part 4. Color and Desire
13. Rough Wolves in the Sheepcote: The Meanings of Fashionable Color 1909-1914
14. 'Le noir étant la dominante de notre vêture .': The Many Meanings of Black in Post-War Paris
15. British Scarlet Broadcloth: The Perfect Red in Eastern Africa, c.1820 - 1885
16. Lives Lived: Archaeology of Faded Indigo
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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