Frock Consciousness
Rosemary Hill: Fashion and frocks, 20 January 2000
The Penguin Book of 20th-Century Fashion Writing
edited by Judith Watt.
Viking, 360 pp., £20, November 1999,0 670 88215 1 Show More
edited by Judith Watt.
Viking, 360 pp., £20, November 1999,
Twentieth-Century Fashion
by Valerie Mendes and Amy de la Haye.
Thames and Hudson, 288 pp., £8.95, November 1999,0 500 20321 0 Show More
by Valerie Mendes and Amy de la Haye.
Thames and Hudson, 288 pp., £8.95, November 1999,
A Century of Fashion
by François Baudot.
Thames and Hudson, 400 pp., £19.95, November 1999,0 500 28178 5 Show More
by François Baudot.
Thames and Hudson, 400 pp., £19.95, November 1999,
The Hidden Consumer: Masculinities, Fashion and City Life 1860-1914
by Christopher Breward.
Manchester, 278 pp., £45, September 1999,0 7190 4799 4 Show More
by Christopher Breward.
Manchester, 278 pp., £45, September 1999,
Black in Fashion
by Valerie Mendes.
Victoria & Albert Museum, 144 pp., £35, October 1999,1 85177 278 2 Show More
by Valerie Mendes.
Victoria & Albert Museum, 144 pp., £35, October 1999,
“... they speak even when we are silent. ‘Dressed in a tramp’s clothes,’ George Orwell, quoted by Judith Watt, observed, ‘it is very difficult ... not to feel that you are genuinely degraded.’ The hope that a change of clothes will actually redress our situation is not therefore entirely vain, in either sense of the word. In the 20th century, of ... ”
