Fade to Greige
Elaine Showalter: Mad for the Handcuff Bracelets, 4 January 2001
A Dedicated Follower of Fashion
by Holly Brubach.
Phaidon, 232 pp., £19.95, October 1999,9780714838878 Show More
by Holly Brubach.
Phaidon, 232 pp., £19.95, October 1999,
Fashion and Its Social Agendas: Class, Gender and Society in Clothing
by Diana Crane.
Chicago, 294 pp., £19, August 2000,0 226 11798 7 Show More
by Diana Crane.
Chicago, 294 pp., £19, August 2000,
Historical Fashion in Detail: The 17th and 18th Centuries
by Avril Hart and Susan North.
Victoria & Albert Museum, 223 pp., £19.95, October 2000,1 85177 258 8 Show More
by Avril Hart and Susan North.
Victoria & Albert Museum, 223 pp., £19.95, October 2000,
Don We Now Our Gay Appalrel: Gay Men’s Dress in the 20th Century
by Shuan Cole.
Berg, 224 pp., £42.99, September 2000,1 85973 415 4 Show More
by Shuan Cole.
Berg, 224 pp., £42.99, September 2000,
The Gallery of Fashion
by Aileen Ribeiro.
Princeton, 256 pp., £60, November 2000,0 691 05092 9 Show More
by Aileen Ribeiro.
Princeton, 256 pp., £60, November 2000,
Giorgio Armani
by Germano Celant and Harold Koda.
Abrams, 392 pp., £40, October 2000,0 8109 6927 0 Show More
by Germano Celant and Harold Koda.
Abrams, 392 pp., £40, October 2000,
“... Paris, only 28 had more than one set of clothes. In contrast, the clothing of the aristocracy, as Avril Hart and Susan North show in their study of 17th and 18th-century costume detail, was costly, elaborate, lavish in craft and ornamentation. Once fabric and clothing were mass produced, they became matters of choice rather than class. For the past ... ”
