Sportswear

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Rebecca Arnold
The American Look: Fashion, Sportswear and the Image of Women in 1930s and 1940s New York
From the end of the 1930s through the 1940s, the New York fashion industry came into its own. Sportswear, which had evolved from its sporting origins to include simple casual wear for town and country, travel and leisure, was at the centre of this shift. Sportswear provided busy career women, colleg...
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Rebecca Arnold
The American Look: Fashion, Sportswear and the Image of Women in 1930s and 1940s New York
From the end of the 1930s through the 1940s, the New York fashion industry came into its own. Sportswear, which had evolved from its sporting origins to include simple casual wear for town and country, travel and leisure, was at the centre of this shift. Sportswear provided busy career women, colleg...
$132.70
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Patricia C. Warner
When the Girls Came Out to Play: The Birth of American Sportswear
A study of the evolution of American women's clothing, When the Girls Came Out to Play traces the history of modern sportswear as a universal style that broke down traditional gender roles. Patricia Warner shows how this profound cultural shift, which did not reach fruition until World War II, ori...
$36.95
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Gilberto Brown
Adidas: From Humble Beginnings to Global Glory - The Rise of a Sportswear Giant
Embark on an inspiring journey with "Adidas: From Humble Beginnings to Global Glory - The Rise of a Sportswear Giant." This captivating biography chronicles the remarkable ascent of Adidas, tracing the vision and determination of Adi Dassler, a shoemaker driven by his passion for sports. Witness the...
$9.89
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Janine D'Agati
From Sleepwear to Sportswear: How Beach Pajamas Reshaped Women's Fashion
How did women begin wearing pants? Prior to the 1920s it was a rarity to see women in pants in the Western world, but as the silk pajama trouser suit moved from the boudoir to the beach in the early 1920s it cemented the image of the trousered woman. Worn by Jean Harlow and Marlene Dietrich, painte...
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Susan Watkins
Functional Clothing Design: From Sportswear to Spacesuits
Functional Clothing Design is a book about how and why clothing works. This interdisciplinary text introduces new ways to look at the human body, the environment and clothing and to explore the relationships between them by looking at the ways clothing achieves goals such as protecting the body, in...
$73.95
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Melissa Fehr
Sew Your Own Activewear: Make a unique sportswear wardrobe from four basic sewing blocks
Make your own unique activewear sewing wardrobe that's perfect for your workout. Choose from 13 different styles including yoga pants, crops top and running leggings designed by activewear sewing expert, and marathon runner, Melissa Fehr. Whether you're a runner, a cyclist or a gym bunny, or you'r...
$11.67
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Callum Shah
Basketball Designer Coloring Book: Sportswear Art Coloring Pages for All Ages with Dynamic Athletic Apparel and Cool Accessories for Endless Fun
Are you a basketball fan who loves stylish jerseys, trendy sneakers, and cool streetball outfits? This Basketball Designer Coloring Book is perfect for you! Dive into a world of iconic uniforms, bold designs, and unique basketball gear that let you express your passion for the game in a creative w...
$7.99
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Marnie Koch
Basketball Designer Coloring Book: Sportswear Art Coloring Pages for All Ages with Dynamic Athletic Apparel and Cool Accessories for Endless Fun
Create Your Own Basketball Fashion Designs! Unleash your creativity with the Basketball Designer Coloring Book! This unique collection features stylish jerseys, trendy sneakers, and bold basketball-themed designs, perfect for fans of the game who love fashion and creativity. Whether you dream of d...
$7.99
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Klaus N. Hang
The Denim Bible Jeans Encyclopedia II - by Sportswear International
An easy-to-use A to Z reference presenting brands, personalities and terms from the international jeans scene. The book illustrates product innovations, looks, styles, fits explains embellishment and wash techniques and tells fascinating anecdotes from the world of jeans....
$162.86
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R. Rathinamoorthy
Elastane in Sports and Medical Textiles
Elastic garments have tremendous scope in the field of tight-fit sportswear and healthcare applications. Research towards improvement in the elasticity of fibre, yarn, and fabrics and development in testing methods for elastic garments is the current requirement for the industrial product developmen...
$65.99
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Scott Lash
Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things
In the first half of the twentieth century, Theodor Adorno wrote about the 'culture industry'. For Adorno, culture too along with the products of factory labour was increasingly becoming a commodity. Now, in what they call the 'global culture industry', Scott Lash and Celia Lury argue that Adorno's ...
$25.99
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Sarah E. Braddock Clarke
Techno Textiles 2: Revolutionary Fabrics for Fashion and Design
The incredible intersection of textiles, design, and technology and how it influences our twenty-first-century way of life. Following on the success of the first edition of Techno Textiles , the updated Techno Textiles 2 is completely revised and incorporates over 200 new illustrations, all in co...
$50.00
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Gary Player
Don't Choke: A Champion's Guide to Winning Under Pressure
Gary Player is one of golf’s greatest champions. As one of the “Big Three” of golf’s golden era (with Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer), he helped launch golf as a major international sport. He sits fourth on the list of most major victories on the PGA Tour, and he built a reputation of being ...
$21.83
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Wade Laboissonniere
Blueprints of Fashion: Home Sewing Patterns of the 1940s (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
A visual collection of the most popular 1940s clothing styles that were available in patterns for the home seamstress, featuring everything from couture to everyday workclothes, ensembles, sportswear, lingerie, and more. Once upon a time, most clothes were sewn at home. Now and ever after, home...
$43.00
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Rebecca Jumper Matheson
Artisans and Designers: American Fashion Through Elizabeth and William Phelps
One couple's bold vision for American fashion Long before the fashion industry formally addressed questions of sustainability and advocated for “slow fashion,” William and Elizabeth Phelps, a husband-and-wife design duo, were already working to create hand-crafted leathergoods and functional wom...
$26.96
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JoAnne Olian
Everyday Fashions of the Forties As Pictured in Sears Catalogs (Dover Fashion and Costumes)
Few publications illustrate so comprehensively what American men, women, and children wore in the 1940s than the Sears catalogs of those years, when the company's fashions typified the tastes of the American mainstream. This book is a compilation of 122 fully illustrated and captioned pages selected...
$15.58
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Gert Boyle
One Tough Mother
When a heart attack claimed Gert Boyle's husband in 1970, the forty-six-year-old housewife and mother of three found herself at the helm of Columbia Sportswear, a small outerwear manufacturer in Portland, Oregon, that was struggling financially. With no business experience whatsoever, Boyle was face...
$17.81
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Emma Baxter-Wright
The Little Book of Chanel
Little Book of Chanel is the pocket-sized and beautifully illustrated story of the most celebrated fashion designer in history. Chronicling the life and legacy of Coco Chanel, one of fashion's most influential couturiers, this gorgeous book offers a fascinating account of Chanel's evolution and ...
$11.04
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Elisa Shua Dusapin
Vladivostok Circus
Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature Tonight is the opening night. There are birds perched everywhere, on the power lines, the guy ropes, the strings of light that festoon the tent . . . when I think of all those little bodies suspended between earth and sky, it makes me ...
$12.60
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