Dress, Fashion and Technology: From Prehistory to the Present

Chapter 1: Connecting Technology, Dress, and Fashion Part I, Before the Revolution Chapter 2: Dress and The Technologies Of Prehistory (Upper Paleolithic to the Neolithic Period) Chapter 3: Technologies And Dress In Towns, Cities and Empires (Neolithic Period to C. 500 C.E.) Chapter 4: Technology And Dress Facilitate Fashion Change (Dark Ages to the Seventeenth Century in Europe) Chapter 5: Some Asian Developments in Technology, Dress and Fashion (End of the Neolithic Period until the 17th Century) Part II: The Industrial Revolution and First Steps Toward the Fashion Industry Chapter 6: Dress and Fashion Move The Industrial Revolution Forward (18th Century) Chapter 7: The Role Of Dress and Fashion in the Industrial Revolution (c. 1800 to 1860) Chapter 8: Dress, Fashion and Social Changes Follow the Industrial Revolution (Nineteenth Century) Chapter 9: Tools that Enable Fashion Change and Innovations in Dress (19th century) Part III, The Fashion Industry is Born Chapter 10: Tools and Processes Expand Options for Dress and Fashion (20th and 21st centuries) Chapter 11: Transportation and its Effects (20th and 21st centuries) Chapter 12: The Effects of Sports (19th to the 21st centuries) Chapter 13: Communications Technologies that Disseminate Fashion Information (19th to the 21st centuries) Part IV, High Tech Enters Chapter 14: Technology Contributes to the Globalization of Fashion (20th and 21st centuries) Chapter 15: Environments Interact with Technologies (20th and 21st centuries) Chapter 16 New Technological Frontiers for Dress And Fashion (21st century) References Acknowledgements