Book contents
- The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
- The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
- The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
- Copyright page
- Contents for Volume I
- Figures for Volume I
- Maps for Volume I
- Table for Volume I
- Contributors for Volume I
- Preface
- 1 Global History in the History of Fashion
- Part I Multiple Origins of Fashion
- 2 Towards a History of Fashion Without Origins
- 3 Fashion in the Ancient World
- 4 Fashion on the Silk Roads, 500–1300
- 5 Distinguishing Oneself
- 6 The Material Regulation of Fashion
- Part II Early Modern Global Entanglements
- Part III Many Worlds of Fashion
- Index
- References
3 - Fashion in the Ancient World
from Part I - Multiple Origins of Fashion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2023
Book contents
- The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
- The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
- The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
- Copyright page
- Contents for Volume I
- Figures for Volume I
- Maps for Volume I
- Table for Volume I
- Contributors for Volume I
- Preface
- 1 Global History in the History of Fashion
- Part I Multiple Origins of Fashion
- 2 Towards a History of Fashion Without Origins
- 3 Fashion in the Ancient World
- 4 Fashion on the Silk Roads, 500–1300
- 5 Distinguishing Oneself
- 6 The Material Regulation of Fashion
- Part II Early Modern Global Entanglements
- Part III Many Worlds of Fashion
- Index
- References
Summary
‘Show me the clothes of a country and I can write its history.’1
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge Global History of FashionFrom Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century, pp. 51 - 77Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
References
Select Bibliography
Brossder, Ursula, ‘Belts, Daggers and Earrings of Gold: Steppe Luxuries’, in Whitfield, Susan (ed.), Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes (London: Thames & Hudson, 2019), 105–11.Google Scholar
Falkenhausen, Lothar Von, ‘Inconsequential Incomprehensions: Some Instances of Chinese Writing in Alien Contexts’, RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 35 (1999), 42–69.Google Scholar
Anna, Hedeager King, ‘The Caftan: Fashion across the Silk Road’, in Whitfield, Susan (ed.), Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes (London: Thames & Hudson, 2019), 112–17.Google Scholar
Berit, Hildebrandt, ‘Silk Production and Trade in the Roman Empire’, in Hildebrandt, Berit and Gillis, Carole (eds.), Silk: Trade and Exchange Along the Silk Roads between Rome and China in Antiquity (Oxford: Oxbow, 2017), 34–50.Google Scholar
Ko, Dorothy, ‘The Body as Attire: The Shifting Meanings of Footbinding in Seventeenth-Century China’, Journal of Women’s History, 8/4 (1997), 8–27.Google Scholar
Linduff, Katheryn, ‘Production of Signature Artifacts for the Nomad Market in the State of Qin during the Late Warring States Period in China (4th–3rd century BCE)’, in Mei, Jianjun and Rehren, Thilo (eds.), Metallurgy and Civilisation: Eurasia and Beyond (London: Archetype, 2009), 90–6.Google Scholar
Liu, Xinru and Shaffer, Linda, Connections Across Eurasia: Transportation, Communication, and Cultural Exchange on the Silk Roads (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007).Google Scholar
Long, Tracey, ‘The Use of Parthian Costume in Funerary Portraiture in Palmyra’, in Kropp, Andreas and Raja, Rubina (eds.), The World of Palmyra (Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2016), 68–83.Google Scholar
Sarkhosh Curtis, Vesta, ‘The Parthian Haute-Couture at Palmyra’, in Kropp, Andreas and Raja, Rubina (eds.), The World of Palmyra (Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2016), 52–67.Google Scholar
Schmidt-Colinet, Andreas, Stauffer, Anne-Marie, and Al-Asad, Khaled (eds.), Die Textilien aus Palmyra: Neue und Alte Funde (Mainz: Philip von Zabern, 2000).Google Scholar
Thomas, Thelma K., ‘Perspectives on the Wide World of Luxury in Later Antiquity: Silk and Other Exotic Textiles Found in Syria and Egypt’, in Hildebrandt, Berit and Gillis, Carole (eds.), Silk: Trade and Exchange Along the Silk Roads between Rome and China in Antiquity (Oxford: Oxbow, 2017), 51–81.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wagner, Mayke, Wang, Bo, Tarasov, Pavel, Westh-Hansen, Sidsel Maria, Völling, Elisabeth, and Heller, Jonas, ‘The Ornamental Trousers from Sampula (Xinjiang, China): Their Origins and Biography’, Antiquity, 83 (2009), 1065–75.Google Scholar
Whitfield, Susan, Silk, Slaves, and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road (Oakland: University of California Press, 2018).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zuchowska, Marta, ‘“Grape Picking” Silk from Palmyra: A Han Dynasty Chinese Textile with Hellenistic Decoration Motif’, Światowit: Annual of the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Warsaw, 12/53 (2014), 143–62.Google Scholar