Abstract This article seeks to demonstrate that a believed Seljuq hat from Iran is in fact Fatimid Egypt. For the first time, it uses an analysis of paper documents used line this once splendid samite piece and asks about archival logic their reuse. Beyond narrow question origin, illustrates methodological challenge for textile historians who often have operate without additional documentary ma...

Abstract Through an examination of clothing, adornment, and hygiene artifacts recovered from the Quarters area Levi Jordan Plantation, this article examines how racial, gendered, classed operations power oppression shaped African American women’s sartorial practices, as aspect identity formation, during late nineteenth early twentieth centuries in Texas. a Black feminist framework, focuses on w...

Examining the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's performative approach to politics, this study offers an interpretation of populism as a style governing. Central is visual appearance populist leader, heavily coded by their manner dressing. The article analysis ways in which uses fashion and clothes articulate three fundamental features leadership: appeal identification with people, anti-elit...

Inspired by Terry Newman’s literary and sartorial analysis of writers in her book Legendary Authors the Clothes They Wore, I analyze James Baldwin’s style using excerpts from his works archival photography. also add a signifier/signified social semiotic theory. According to De Saussure, there are two main parts any sign, signifier, which connotes material thing, signified, is meaning that made ...