Kimono - Fashioning Culture was published by Yale University Press in 1993.Īs part of the research for this book, Liza was drawn into the descriptions of the clothing worn by the court ladies of the Heian period. Clothing and fashion offer an excellent window to view various aspects of society and culture, and Liza pursued this research over the years. Because their kimono wardrobes were of such importance to the geisha, Liza, too, developed a keen eye for the nuance of Japanese dress through their tutelage. The seed of Liza's subsequent major book, Kimono - Fashioning Culture, can be found in Geisha. Geisha was published in 1983 by the University of California Press. She also married Michael Dalby, a fellow professor at the time. from Stanford in 1978, Liza took up her first teaching position at the University of Chicago.
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