[32] David Jenkin, The Cambridge History of Western Textiles,1(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003),350.
[33] Laura U.Marks, “From Haptic to Optical, Performance to Figuration: A History of Representation at the Bottom of a Bowl,” in Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe: Memory, Aesthetics, Art,ed. Frank Peter and Sarah Dornhof.(Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag,2014), 244.
[34] Ioli Kalavrezou, Byzantine Women and Their World (Cambridge: Harvard University Art Museums ; New Haven : Yale University Press, 2003),177.
[35]Ibid., 175.
[36]Mary Margaret Fulghum, “Under Wraps: Byzantine Textiles as Major and Minor Arts,” Studies in Decorative Arts 9.1(2001):29.
[37] Henry Maguire, “Garments Pleasing to God: The Significance of Domestic Textile Designs in the Early Byzantine Period,” in Dumbarton Oaks papers Vol.44(1990):215
[38] Ibid.,216.
[39]Ibid., 216.
[40]Ibid., 217.
[41] Pamela Stecker, The Fashion Design Manual (Melbourne : Macmillan Education Australia, 1996),8.
[42] François Boucher, 20,000 years of Fashion the History of Costume and Personal Adornment (New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1967),147.
[43] Timothy Dawson, Property, Practicality and Pleasure: the Parameters of Women’s Dress in Byzantium, A.D. 1000-1200,” in Byzantine Women: Varieties of Experience 800-1200, ed. Lynda Garland (Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006),45.
[44]“Biographies: Clifford Geertz,” Sociocultural Theory in Anthropology Indiana University, accessed January12, 2015, http://www.indiana.edu/~wanthro/theory_pages/Geertz.htm.
[45] Ibid.
[46]The tastes and preferences of different classes could change over time. For example, the women from higher classes wore supplants of hypokamision in the 11th century and disappeared from fashion in 12th century. See Timothy Dawson, Property, Practicality and Pleasure: the Parameters of Women’s Dress in Bzyantium, A.D. 1000-1200,” in Byzantine Women: Varieties of Experience 800-1200, ed. Lynda Garland (Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Company,2006),50.
[47]Pierre Bourdieu, Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture(
London: Sage Publications,1990),152-153.