The culture of fashion: A new history of fashionable dress

by Christopher Breward

Book Overview

This illustrated survey of 600 years of fashion investigates its cultural and social meanings from medieval Europe to 20th-century America. It provides a guide to the changes in style and taste, and challenges existing fashion histories, showing that clothes have always played a pivotal role in defining a sense of identity and society, especially when concerned with sexual and body politics. With a chronological structure, each chapter focuses on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719041252
• ISBN13: 9780719041259
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The Best Book I've found on this subject

If you're interested in fashion, fashion history, design history, pretty pictures of clothes, and/or how commerce and social values affect style, you must get this book.