Kit: Fashioning the Sporting Body

by Jean M. Williams

Book Overview

This is the first edited collection of its kind to analyse the distinct but overlapping topics of dress, costume, sport and leisure history. For researchers of bodily adornment and movement, sport and costume history are both primarily concerned with industrial practice and embodied experience. The ways in which bodies are adorned, embellished and clothed (or revealed) highlights the hybrid nature of dress history, encompassing as it does the everyday...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138922056
• ISBN13: 9781138922051
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"