1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456924303321

Autore

Entwistle Joanne

Titolo

The aesthetic economy of fashion [[electronic resource] ] : markets and value in clothing and modelling / / Joanne Entwistle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Berg, 2009

ISBN

1-283-07975-5

9786613079756

1-84788-747-3

0-85785-148-9

Edizione

[English ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Collana

Dress, body, culture, , 1360-466X

Disciplina

381/.4574692

Soggetti

Clothing trade

Fashion

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; PART I: UNDERSTANDING AESTHETIC MARKETS; 2 An Aesthetic Marketplace: Assembling 'Economy' and 'Culture'; 3 The Aesthetic Economy: The Production of Value in the Field of Fashion Modelling; PART II: FASHION BUYING: A CASE STUDY; 4 Introduction to Case Study; 5 Understanding High Fashion: Retailing and Buying; 6 Markets in Motion: Fashion Temporality and Materiality; 7 Tacit Aesthetic Knowledge: The Fashion Sense and Sensibility of Fashion Buyers; 8 The Cultural Economy of Fashion Buying; Conclusion

NotesBibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Fashion is bound up with promoting the 'new', concerned with constantly changing aesthetics. The favoured styles or looks of a season arise out of the work of a vast range of different actors who collectively produce, select, distribute and promote the new ideals, before moving on to next season. How, then, are fashionable commodities stabilized long enough for them to be selected, distributed and sold? Since there are few studies that actually examine



the work that goes on inside the world of fashion, we know little about these processes. This book addresses this gap in our knowledge by exami

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996397615203316

Autore

Toldervy John

Titolo

The foot out of the snare, or, A restoration of the inhabitants of Zion into their place, after their bewildered and lost estate by the operation of a violent power, and authority [[electronic resource] ] : wrought in the author by the Prince of Darkness, under an appearance of the the brightest light. Being a brief declaration of his entrance into that sect, called (by the name of) Quakers. With a short discourse relating what judgment he was learned in, by the ministryu of those people ... with the manner of his separation from them. / / By me John Toldervy, then servant to Col. Webb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Printed at London, ; ; and reprinted at Glasgow, : by Robert Sanders ... and are to be sold in his shop, 1679

Descrizione fisica

46 p

Soggetti

Society of Friends - Controversial literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Imperfect: cropped, tightly bound, print show-through with loss of text.

Reproduction of original in: National Library of Scotland.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0097



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910216359403321

Titolo

Papers / / Agricultural History Society

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : Agricultural History Society

ISSN

2573-1386

Disciplina

630.9

Soggetti

Agriculture - History

Agriculture

Agriculture - Histoire

Rolnictwo

Czasopismo rolnicze

History

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

The papers of v. 1- are reprinted from the annual report of the American Historical Association.

Title from cover (JSTOR, viewed May 1, 2008).