Dress Cultures will represent the best of new research in scholarly, accessible books that:
Explore Western, non-Western and diaspora dress cultures.
Map the evolving geographies of fashion and retail as informed by a historicised understanding of production, distribution, mediation and consumption.
Examine modern and historical dress and material culture.
Trace the ways in which production, marketing and purchasing of clothes in a global context fashions individual and collective identities.
Explore the representation and regulation of the clothed body.
Investigate tensions between the homogenising aesthetics of globalisation and localised distinction and differentiation.