Dressing and Undressing
Anita Brookner, 15 April 1982
The Language of Clothes
by Alison Lurie.
Heinemann, 272 pp., £10, April 1982,0 434 43906 1 Show More
by Alison Lurie.
Heinemann, 272 pp., £10, April 1982,
The Thirties Family Knitting Book
edited by Jane Waller.
Duckworth, 95 pp., £5.95, September 1981,0 7156 1601 3 Show More
edited by Jane Waller.
Duckworth, 95 pp., £5.95, September 1981,
Chanel and Her World
by Edmonde Charles-Roux.
Weidenfeld, 354 pp., £25, October 1981,0 297 78024 7 Show More
by Edmonde Charles-Roux.
Weidenfeld, 354 pp., £25, October 1981,
Creative Dressing
by Kaori O’Connor.
Penguin, 192 pp., £4.95, September 1981,1 4004 6247 9 Show More
by Kaori O’Connor.
Penguin, 192 pp., £4.95, September 1981,
Doing it with style
by Quentin Crisp.
Eyre Methuen, 157 pp., £5.95, October 1981,0 413 47490 9 Show More
by Quentin Crisp.
Eyre Methuen, 157 pp., £5.95, October 1981,
“... a mere ten years and was interrupted by the famous alternative proposed by Chanel. It is said, by Brigid Keenan, that the loose-waisted chemise dress that he presented in his last collection was to anticipate the style of the Sixties, when ladies became girls overnight, skirts rose to hitherto unimaginable heights, and the long descent into the culture ... ”