In this reader for undergraduate and graduate students in fashion and dress history, researchers, and museum professionals, Riello (global history and culture, U. of Warwick, UK) and McNeil
(design history, U. of Technology Sydney, Australia, and fashion studies, Stockholm U., Sweden) collect 23 previously published essays and 44 shorter "snapshot" texts by history, fashion,
design, and other scholars, curators, and specialists from across the globe, who introduce the fields of fashion studies, and costume, dress, and fashion history, and significant trends and
phenomena, organized by chronological period and theme from the birth of fashion to the global fashion industry of today. Both non-Western literature and better-known studies on Europe and
North America are included, as are different methodological approaches and topics like the relationship between women's work and fashion, fashion in the nineteenth century novel, the impact of
industrialization, the figure of the "dandy," clothing and ethnicity, and the origins of the fashion show. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
