"Dress Sense" explores the importance of the senses and emotions in the way people dress, and how they attach value and significance to clothing. Inspired by the work of Joanne B. Eicher, contributors offer different multi-disciplinary perspectives on this key and unexplored topic in dress and sensory anthropology. Explores the importance of the senses and emotions in the way people dress, and how they attach value and significance to clothing. This work features essays that present historical, contemporary and global views, from British imperial dress in India, to revolutionary Socialist dress. It offers a different perspective on this topic. List of Illustrations vii Contributors ix Introduction 1(6) Helen Bradley Foster Donald Clay Johnson Part I Historical Perspectives Sight, Sound, and Sentiment in Greek Village Dress 7(9) Linda Welters More than Costume History: Dress in Somali Culture 16(7) Heather Marie Akou Dress, Hungarian Socialism, and Resistance 23(12) Katalin Medvedev Clothes Make the Empire: British Dress in India 35(12) Donald Clay Johnson African American Enslavement and Escaping in Disguise 47(13) Helen Bradley Foster Part II Living Traditions The Role of Scents and the Body in Turkey 60(12) Marlene R. Breu Awakening the Senses: The Aesthetics of Moroccan Berber Dress 72(12) Cynthia Becker The Power of Touch: Women's Waist Beads in Ghana 84(12) Suzanne Gott Indian Madras Plaids as Real India 96(13) Sandra Lee Evenson Performing Dress and Adornment in Southeastern Nigeria 109(12) Sarah Adams Part III Challenging Traditions Women, Migration, and the Experience of Dress 121(12) Mary A. Littrell Jennifer Paff Ogle Handmade Textiles: Global Markets and Authenticity 133(11) Victoria L. Rovine Growing Old and Dressing (Dis)Gracefully 144(12) Annette Lynch M. Elise Radina Marybeth C. Stalp Part IV The Future Embodying the Feminine: Male-to-Female Cross-dressing 156(14) Jane E. Hegland Nancy Nelson Hodges Virtual Sensation: Dress Online 170(13) Suzanne Loker Susan P. Ashdown Index 183