Author : Charles Murphy
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 50,23 MB
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1482455811
Its time to get dressed! In this increasingly connected world, numerous peoples around the world share modern fashions. However, many cultures reserve distinctive outfits for special occasions. This intriguing volume, a valuable addition to any social studies collection, showcases clothing from West Africa, Mexico, India, South Korea, Scotland, and other places. Traditional apparel, some of which is now seen in western countries, is displayed in vivid photographs.
Author : Moira Butterfield
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 11,8 MB
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1502608375
Learn about the different clothes children wear in countries around the world.
Author : Clare Lewis
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 18,49 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1484603818
Introduces clothing from around the world, including formal attire, sportswear, uniforms, and outdoor gear.
Author : Jill Condra
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1446 pages
File Size : 45,39 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Art
ISBN :
This two-volume set presents information and images of the varied clothing and textiles of cultures around the world, allowing readers to better appreciate the richness and diversity of human culture and history. The contributors to Encyclopedia of National Dress: Traditional Clothing around the World examine clothing that is symbolic of the people who live in regions all over the world, providing a historical and geographic perspective that illustrates how people dress and explains the reasons behind the material, design, and style. The encyclopedia features a preface and introduction to its contents. Each entry in the encyclopedia includes a short historical and geographical background for the topic before discussing the clothing of people in that country or region of the world. This work will be of great interest to high school students researching fashion, fashion history, or history as well as to undergraduate students and general readers interested in anthropology, textiles, fashion, ethnology, history, or ethnic dress.
Author : Giovanna Alessio
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,22 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Costume
ISBN : 9781800789265
A stunning exhibition of national dress from around the world, curated and beautifully illustrated by Indian illustrator, Chaaya Prabhat. Explore how traditional dress is an important part of a region's identity and the meaning behind the intricate details and symbols they feature. This book will take readers on a colourful journey around the world, visiting 30 different countries, including: Bali; China; India; Japan; South Korea; Philippines; Thailand; Siberia; Mexico; Greenland; USA; Argentina; Peru; Panama; Brazil; Namibia; Mali; Kenya; Nigeria; Cameroon; Portugal; Germany; France; Spain; Scotland; Czech Republic; Norway; New Zealand; Samoa; Papua New Guinea.
Author : Maya Ajmera
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,22 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1580894178
A celebration of clothing in bright, beautiful photographs of exuberant and diverse children from around the world, WHAT WE WEAR: DRESSING UP AROUND THE WORLD inspires young readers to explore the way clothing makes them feel and how it tells the world who they are. What we wear can identify who we are: what team we play for or what team we root for, where we go to school, how we worship, or how we represent our heritage. What we wear expresses our individuality, and clothes can make us happy, confident, and proud. Whether it’s a piper in a tartan plaid, a cowpoke in a cowboy hat, or a novice in ceremonial face paint, children everywhere wear different clothes and accessories for different reasons. But, one thing they all have in common is that they are all unique and beautiful. Backmatter encourages young readers to explore the way people dress in other countries and other cultures at folk festivals, at museums, and at home by asking about their own family heritage.
Author : Karen Tranberg Hansen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,79 MB
Release : 2000-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226315805
When we donate our unwanted clothes to charity, we rarely think about what will happen to them: who will sort and sell them, and finally, who will revive and wear them. In this fascinating look at the multibillion dollar secondhand clothing business, Karen Tranberg Hansen takes us around the world from the West, where clothing is donated, through the salvage houses in North America and Europe, where it is sorted and compressed, to Africa, in this case, Zambia. There it enters the dynamic world of Salaula, a Bemba term that means "to rummage through a pile." Essential for the African economy, the secondhand clothing business is wildly popular, to the point of threatening the indigenous textile industry. But, Hansen shows, wearing secondhand clothes is about much more than imitating Western styles. It is about taking a garment and altering it to something entirely local, something that adheres to current cultural norms of etiquette. By unraveling how these garments becomes entangled in the economic, political, and cultural processes of contemporary Zambia, Hansen also raises provocative questions about environmentalism, charity, recycling, and thrift.
Author : Andrew Brooks
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1783600691
‘An interesting and important account.’ Daily Telegraph Have you ever stopped and wondered where your jeans came from? Who made them and where? Ever wondered where they end up after you donate them for recycling? Following a pair of jeans, Clothing Poverty takes the reader on a vivid around-the-world tour to reveal how clothes are manufactured and retailed, bringing to light how fast fashion and clothing recycling are interconnected. Andrew Brooks shows how recycled clothes are traded across continents, uncovers how retailers and international charities are embroiled in commodity chains which perpetuate poverty, and exposes the hidden trade networks which transect the globe. Stitching together rich narratives, from Mozambican markets, Nigerian smugglers and Chinese factories to London’s vintage clothing scene, TOMS shoes and Vivienne Westwood’s ethical fashion lines, Brooks uncovers the many hidden sides of fashion.
Author : Clare Lewis
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 26,38 MB
Release : 2014-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1484603737
"This book looks at the rich diversity of shopping experiences around the world. Through simple text and stunning photographs, it introduces children to similarities found when shopping in different cultures, and honors differences."--
Author : Beverly Lemire
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1351028723
Dressing Global Bodies addresses the complex politics of dress and fashion from a global perspective spanning four centuries, tying the early global to more contemporary times, to reveal clothing practice as a key cultural phenomenon and mechanism of defining one’s identity. This collection of essays explores how garments reflect the hierarchies of value, collective and personal inclinations, religious norms and conversions. Apparel is now recognized for its seminal role in global, colonial and post-colonial engagements and for its role in personal and collective expression. Patterns of exchange and commerce are discussed by contributing authors to analyse powerful and diverse colonial and postcolonial practices. This volume rejects assumptions surrounding a purportedly all-powerful Western metropolitan fashion system and instead aims to emphasize how diverse populations seized agency through the fashioning of dress. Dressing Global Bodies contributes to a growing scholarship considering gender and race, place and politics through the close critical analysis of dress and fashion; it is an indispensable volume for students of history and especially those interested in fashion, textiles, material culture and the body across a wide time frame.
