The suit : form, function and style /
Publisher: London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 240 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781780235233
- 1780235232
- GT 2079 BRE
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Whitecliffe Library General Shelves | General | GT 2079 BRE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0015186 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-230) and index.
Introduction: The tailor's art -- Well suited -- Suiting nations -- Sharp suits -- Seeing the suit -- Epilogue: Future suits.
"Unpicks the story of [the suit], from its emergence in western Europe at the end of the seventeenth century to today. Suit-wearing figures such as the Savile Row gentleman and the Wall Street businessman have long embodied ideas of tradition, masculinity, power and respectability, but the suit has also been used to disrupt concepts of gender and conformity. Adopted and subverted by women, artists, musicians and social revolutionaries through the decades, the suit is also a device for challenging the status quo." --book jacket.