LIBROS DEL AUTOR: linda welters

3 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: linda welters

  • Embroidery on Greek Women’s Chemises in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Linda Welters
    This is a classic article on Greek embroidery, especially that found on women’s chemises. The chemise is a basic garment worn by peasant women all over the Balkans for many centuries, as late as the twentieth century in some places. The article aims to illustrate and discuss the embroidery of nineteen chemises that could be found at the Metropolitan Museum if Art, New York, and...
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    36,05 €

  • Twentieth-Century American Fashion
    Linda Welters
    Americans began the twentieth century standing in Europe’s sartorial shadow, yet ended by outfitting the world in blue jeans, T-shirts and sneakers. How did this come about? What changes in American culture were reflected in fashion? What role did popular culture play? This important overview of American fashion in the twentieth century considers how Americans went from imitati...
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    52,23 €

  • Folk Dress in Europe and Anatolia
    Linda M. Welters
    Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2000. Relationships between dress and the body have existed in European and Anatolian folk cultures well into the twentieth century. Traditional cultures have long held the belief that certain articles of dress could protect the body from harm by warding off the ’evil eye,’ bring fertility to new brides, or assure human contro...
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    60,18 €