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The Visible Self: Global Perspectives of Dress, Culture, and Society, 3rd Edition
The Visible Self Global Perspectives of Dress Culture and Society 3rd Edition Author:Joanne Eicher, Sandra Evenson, Hazel Lutz What shall I wear? How shall I dress? Everywhere in the world people make daily — decisions about what to wear or how to dress. Some people have more choices than others — do. Some people like making the decision more than others do. Using Western and non- — Western examples, The Visible Self, 3rd Edition, is about the daily act of dress in culture... more »s
around the world not simply the act of putting on clothing, and accessories but also
grooming the body. The first edition of The Visible Self by Mary Ellen Roach and Joanne B.
Eicher provided a new approach at the time to the study of dress, presenting the idea that
dress was a larger concept than clothing, a concept to be viewed cross-culturally and
objectively. The second edition elaborated on the concept and introduced a discussion of
ethnocentrism, ethnic dress, and culture. This new edition, adds discussion of more issues,
contains further refinements of concepts, adds new concepts, updates many images and
examples to increase understanding, and concludes with a discussion of how dress practice