Ingrid Mida and Alexandra Kim, The Dress Detective: A Practical Guide to Object-Based Research in Fashion. London: Bloomsbury, 2015, paperback ￡24.99, pp. 224.

摘要

With fashion exhibitions becoming increasingly popular in museums worldwide, the discipline offashion curating has also become more recognized. However, many museums with collectionsof costume do not have specialist curators, and even students on specialist courses may nothave easy access to collection artefacts. Therefore, important information that can only begleaned from the close examination of an object may be missed when exhibitions are prepared.Against this background, the authors have created a practical guidebook to researching fashionobjects using a material culture framework