Dangerous designs: Asian women fashion the diaspora economies

Pt. I. Travels of the suit

1. Cultural narratives of the suit

2. Ethnicized consumption

Pt. II. Design narratives

3. Pioneering fashion entrepreneur: Geeta Sarin

4. Second-generation design globalizer: Bubby Mahil

5. Selling the nation: revivalist Indian designer Ritu Kumar

6. Selling art clothes in classed markets

Conclusion: national elites versus diaspora design entrepreneurs

Pt. III. Suit marketers

7. Daminis: a commercial community mama's shops

8. Networking marketers of ready-made suits

Pt. IV. Sewing cultures: sketching and designing

9. Diasporic sina-prona: sewing and patterning cultures

10. Designing diasporas through sketches