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Fashion and Eroticism: The Ideals of Feminine Beauty from the Victorian Era to the Jazz Age

Looks at the evolution of fashion, argues that Victorian clothing for women was erotic rather than prudish, and discusses the psychological aspects of fashion

By Valerie Steele

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9780195035308 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 1985, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Looks at the evolution of fashion, argues that Victorian clothing for women was erotic rather than prudish, and discusses the psychological aspects of fashion

Paris Fashion: A Cultural History

Product Description: Paris has been the international capital of style for three hundred years. Although challenged by other fashion cities such as Milan, London and New York, Paris remains special. This fascinating book shows that the strength of the French fashion industry rests on the depth and sophistication of its fashion culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Valerie Steele

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9780195044652 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 1988, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Explores the sophisticated fashion culture of Paris and demonstrates how the city's superior clothing industry and the strategic public display of fashion have contributed to the dominance of Parisian fashion

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9781859739730 | 2 rev sub edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 1, 1998), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Paris has been the international capital of style for three hundred years.

Men and Women: Dressing the Part

Looks at differences in men's and women's clothing, including infantware, and work, sports, and formal attire, and discusses the influence of social roles

By Claudia Brush Kidwell (editor) and Valerie Steele (editor)

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9780874745597 | Smithsonian Inst Pr, April 1, 1989, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Looks at differences in men's and women's clothing, including infantware, and work, sports, and formal attire, and discusses the influence of social roles

Women of Fashion: Twentieth-Century Designers

Explores the increasing prominence of women in the fashion design and examines their contributions to twentieth-century fashion

By Valerie Steele

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9780847813940 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, November 1, 1991, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Explores the increasing prominence of women in the fashion design and examines their contributions to twentieth-century fashion

Fetish: Fashion, Sex and Power

Offers a history of erotic fashion, illuminating the appeal of such clothing, its emergence into mainstream society, and its implications for human sexual behavior

By Valerie Steele

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9780195090444, titled "Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power" | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 4, 1996, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Offers a history of erotic fashion, illuminating the appeal of such clothing, its emergence into mainstream society, and its implications for human sexual behavior

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9780195115796 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 1, 1997), cover price $29.95

Art, Design, & Barbie: The Evolution of a Cultural Icon

By Valerie Steele

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9781888107005 | Exhibitions Intl, December 1, 1995, cover price $19.95

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culute

Product Description: The importance of studying the body as a site for the deployment of discourses is well-established in a number of disciplines. By contrast, the study of dress has, until recently, suffered from a lack of critical analysis. Increasingly, however, scholars have recognized the cultural significance of self-fashioning, including not only clothing but also such body alterations as tattooing and piercing...read more

By Valerie Steele (editor)

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9781859739662 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, February 1, 1997, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: The importance of studying the body as a site for the deployment of discourses is well-established in a number of disciplines.

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture : Issue 2 : June 1997

Product Description: Anne Higonnet and Cassi Albinson: 'Clothing the Child's Body' Leslie W. Rabine: 'Not a Mere Ornament: Tradition, Modernity and Colonialism in Kenyan and Western Clothing' Caroline Evans: 'Dreams That Only Money Can Buy...Or, the Shy Tribe In Flight From Discourse' Brian McVeigh: 'Wearing Ideology: How Uniforms Discipline Minds and Bodies in Japan' Edward F...read more

By Valerie Steele (editor)

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9781859739372 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 1, 1997, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Anne Higonnet and Cassi Albinson: 'Clothing the Child's Body' Leslie W.

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture : Issue 3 : September 1997

Product Description: Laird O'Shea Borrelli: 'Dressing Up and Talking about It: Fashion Writing in'Vogue' from 1968-1993'Matthew Debord: 'Texture and Taboo: The Tyranny of Texture and Ease in the J. Crew Catalog' Valerie Steele: 'Anti-Fashions: The 1970s' Alexandra Palmer: 'New Directions: Fashion History Studies and Research in North America and England' Christopher Breward: Exhibition Review: Tanks and Trousseaus: Fashion in the Theater of War - Forties Fashion and the New Look , Imperial War Museum, London Ena Szkoda: Exhibition Review: Art/Fashion, Guggenheim Museum SoHo John S...read more

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9781859739426 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 1, 1997, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Laird O'Shea Borrelli: 'Dressing Up and Talking about It: Fashion Writing in'Vogue' from 1968-1993'Matthew Debord: 'Texture and Taboo: The Tyranny of Texture and Ease in the J.

Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now

Describes top trends and designers of the past fifty years, including their social and cultural contexts (view table of contents)

By Valerie Steele

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9780300071320 | Yale Univ Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Describes top trends and designers of the past fifty years, including their social and cultural contexts

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9780300087383 | Yale Univ Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Describes top trends and designers of the past fifty years, including their social and cultural contexts

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture : Issue 2 : June 1998

Product Description: Kate Ince: 'Operations of Redress: Orlan, the Body and its Limits' Katharine Wallerstein: 'Thinness and Other Refusals in Contemporary Fashion Advertisements' Robert Radford: 'Dangerous Liaisons: Art, Fashion and Individualism' Susan Michelman: 'Breaking Habits: Fashion and Identity of Women Religious...read more

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9781859739495 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 1, 1998, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Kate Ince: 'Operations of Redress: Orlan, the Body and its Limits' Katharine Wallerstein: 'Thinness and Other Refusals in Contemporary Fashion Advertisements' Robert Radford: 'Dangerous Liaisons: Art, Fashion and Individualism' Susan Michelman: 'Breaking Habits: Fashion and Identity of Women Religious'

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture : Issue 3 : September 1998

Product Description: Paul Jobling: 'Who's That Girl?: 'Alex Eats', A Case Study in Abjection and Identity in Contemporary Fashion Photography' Elizabeth Wilson: 'Bohemian Dress and the Heroism of Everyday Life' Gayle Veronica Fischer: 'A Matter of Wardrobe?Mary Edwards Walker, a Nineteenth-Century American Cross-Dresser' Linda B...read more

By Valerie Steele (editor)

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9781859732403 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 1, 1998, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Paul Jobling: 'Who's That Girl?

Barbie Millicent Roberts: An Original

Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of America's favorite doll, a collection of seventy-five full-color photographs captures Barbie in a variety of rare ensembles copied from the original designs of such great couturiers as Chanel, Dior, and Balenciaga. 30,000 first printing.

By David Levinthal and Valerie Steele

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9780375404252 | 1st edition (Pantheon Books, September 1, 1998), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Describes how the Barbie doll has embodied the fascination with fashion

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture : Issue 4 : December 1998

By Valerie Steele (editor)

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9781859732458 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, November 1, 1998, cover price $35.95

Shoes: A Lexicon of Style

Product Description: No matter how many pairs you have, no matter how closely you follow the trends, youâre bound to discover something new in this savvy and irreverent study of contemporary womenâs shoes. All the top styles and major players are hereâfrom Manolo Blahnik, master of the skyscraper heel to Tom Ford, the designer who sparked the resurgence of the famous Gucci loafer...read more

By Valerie Steele

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9781902686486 | Scriptum Editions, October 15, 2005, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: No matter how many pairs you have, no matter how closely you follow the trends, youâre bound to discover something new in this savvy and irreverent study of contemporary womenâs shoes.

9780847821662 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, February 1, 1999, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Surveys modern footwear, including styles, trends, and designers, and shows how shoes are advertised

China Chic: East Meets West

Explores the historical significance of Chinese clothing, and offers examples and commentary on fashions ranging from the dragon robes of the Imperial era to the cheongsams shown on the runways in Paris

By John S. Major and Valerie Steele

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9780300079302 | Yale Univ Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Explores the historical significance of Chinese clothing, and offers examples and commentary on fashions ranging from the dragon robes of the Imperial era to the cheongsams shown on the runways in Paris

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9780300079319 | Yale Univ Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Explores the historical significance of Chinese clothing, and offers examples and commentary on fashions ranging from the dragon robes of the Imperial era to the cheongsams shown on the runways in Paris

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture : Issue 3 : October 1999

Product Description: Joanne Finkelstein: Chic - A Look That's Hard to SeeM. Catherine Daly: Ah, a Real Kalabari Woman! Reflexivity and the Conceptualization of Appearance Ulrich Lehmann: Tigersprung: Fashioning History Rebecca Arnold: Heroin Chic Rachel Worth: Nineteenth Century English Labouring Dres...read more

By Valerie Steele (editor)

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9781859733455 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 1, 1999, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Joanne Finkelstein: Chic - A Look That's Hard to SeeM.

Handbags: A Lexicon of Style

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By Laird Borrelli and Valerie Steele

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9780847822300 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, January 1, 2000, cover price $40.00

Fashion and Eroticism

Product Description: Special issue on fashion and eroticismValerie Steele: Letter from the EditorWilliam Keenan: From Friars to Fornicators: The Eroticization of Sacred DressPeter McNeil: âThat Doubtful Gender': Macaroni Dress and Male SexualitiesValerie Steele: The Corset: Fashion and EroticismEric Henry: The Social Significance of Nudity in Early ChinaRebecca Arnold: The Brutalized BodyJohn S...read more

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9781859733509 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, November 1, 1999, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Special issue on fashion and eroticismValerie Steele: Letter from the EditorWilliam Keenan: From Friars to Fornicators: The Eroticization of Sacred DressPeter McNeil: âThat Doubtful Gender': Macaroni Dress and Male SexualitiesValerie Steele: The Corset: Fashion and EroticismEric Henry: The Social Significance of Nudity in Early ChinaRebecca Arnold: The Brutalized BodyJohn S.

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture : March 2000

Product Description: Christopher Breward: In the Eye of the Storm: Oxford Circus and the Fashioning of ModernityGabriele Mentges: Cold, Coldness, Coolness: Remarks on the Relationship of Dress, Body and TechnologySherwin Simmons: Expressionism in the Discourse of FashionRegina A...read more

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9781859734063 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, February 1, 2000, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Christopher Breward: In the Eye of the Storm: Oxford Circus and the Fashioning of ModernityGabriele Mentges: Cold, Coldness, Coolness: Remarks on the Relationship of Dress, Body and TechnologySherwin Simmons: Expressionism in the Discourse of FashionRegina A.

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture Issue 2

Product Description: Shaun Cole: âMacho Man': Clones and the Development of a Masculine StereotypeMichael Sturma: Mimicry, Mockery and Make-overs: Western visitors in South Pacific DressElizabeth Currie: Prescribing Fashion: Dress, Politics and Gender in Sixteenth-Century Italian Conduct LiteratureGraeme Murdock: Dressed to Repress?: Protestant Protestant Clerical Dress and the Regulation of Morality in Early Modern EuropeDon Slater: Book Review: In the Culture Society: Art, Fashion and Popular Music by A...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Valerie Steele (editor)

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9781859734117 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 1, 2000, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Shaun Cole: âMacho Man': Clones and the Development of a Masculine StereotypeMichael Sturma: Mimicry, Mockery and Make-overs: Western visitors in South Pacific DressElizabeth Currie: Prescribing Fashion: Dress, Politics and Gender in Sixteenth-Century Italian Conduct LiteratureGraeme Murdock: Dressed to Repress?

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body &Culture

The importance of studying the body as a site for deployment of discourses is well-established in a number of disciplines. Taking as its starting point a definition of fashion as the cultural construction of the embodied identity, this book provides a forum for the analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot binding to fashion advertising.

By Valerie Steele

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9781859738368 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 7, 2005, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: The importance of studying the body as a site for deployment of discourses is well-established in a number of disciplines.

9781859734179, titled "Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body, Culture" | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 1, 2000, cover price $35.95

Messengers Style

Product Description: Messengers: fast, furious, athletic, stylish. Whether weaving through city traffic at breakneck speed or hanging out on the sidewalk, today's bike messengers are the ultimate in urban style. Because of their trend-setting influence in such areas as attitude, music, and sports, this book is a statement on the driving engine of a high-energy city...read more

By Philippe Bialobos, Valerie Steele (introduced by) and Kenji Toma

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9782843232107 | Editions Assouline, October 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Messengers: fast, furious, athletic, stylish.

Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body, Culture : Issue 4 December

Product Description: Masculinities Special IssueThe overwhelming majority of books and articles on fashion focus on women. But of course men get dressed too. The prevailing stereotype is that women spend more time thinking about and buying clothes, but not only do the essays in this stimulating issue overturn this stereotype -- they also show that, historically at least, men's clothes were of paramount importance to their self-presentation, particularly with respect to sexual identity...read more

By Valerie Steele (editor)

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9781859734223 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, November 1, 2000, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Masculinities Special IssueThe overwhelming majority of books and articles on fashion focus on women.

Fashion Theory 2001: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture

Product Description: Nicky Gregson, Kate Brooks and Louise Crewe: Bjorn Again? Rethinking 70s Revivalism through the Reappropriation of 70s ClothingRebecca Houze: Fashionable Reform Dress and the Invention of 'Style' in Fin-de-siÃ¨cle ViennaEd Lilley: Art, Fashion, and the Nude: A Nineteenth-century RealignmentSaulo B...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781859734575 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, February 1, 2001, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Nicky Gregson, Kate Brooks and Louise Crewe: Bjorn Again?

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