Material Strategies brings together scholars from different disciplines to explore what dress and textiles can tell us about gender history.

• Broad in scope - covers women, men, social groupings and nations from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
  
• Rich in detail - incorporates illustrations that provide visual evidence for gendered strategies of dress.
  
• Combines perspectives from design and textile history, business history, cultural anthropology, social history, art history and cultural history.
  
• Considers...