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,
“... on closer inspection, to be mostly about men. In the glass of fashion, however, all is reversed. Mendes and de la Haye write in their introduction that fashion is ‘an indicator of individual, group and sexual identity’ whose ‘fluidity reflects shifts in the social matrix’; yet of the 280 illustrations that follow, nearly 250 are of women. High ... ”
