About this title: From an art historian admired for her brilliance and wit, a provocative argument for the value of modern fashion as sexual expression, with the tailored suit as its strongest example. Dress was equally showy for men and women until the late eighteenth century, when natural simplicity and understatement on the model of the Classical Greek nude became fashionable, but for men's clothes only. After that, obvious sexual display in dress was left to women - and it came to seem both shameful and esthetically inferior by comparison, despite its variety. Hollander shows how modern women adapted men's ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners. Spine has wear at edges. Some pages rounded/bent at corners. Dust jacket has some wear. read more
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Great condition, binding tight, pages clean, small crease on front cover along spine, several indentation marks on front and back cover, gently read. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 212 p. Contains: Illustrations. Kodansha Globe. Audience: General/trade. The language of clothes through history read more
Edition: First edition. Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Kodansha Globe
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9781568361017ISBN:1568361017
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Very minimal curling, else as new. First thus. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 212 p. Contains: Illustrations. Kodansha Globe. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: New in no jacket. pp. 212. An argument for the value of modern fashion as sexual express., with the tailored suit as its strongest example. Dress was equally showy for men & women until the late 18th century, when natural simplicity & understatement became fashionable, but for menís clothes only. After that, obvious sexual display in dress was left to women. Hollander shows how modern women adapted menís tailoring to their richer scheme of display, making suits do for women what they had long ... read more
Description: New York, Kodansha International, (1995). Reprint. Wrappers, illust., pp. viii, 212. Fine. ISBN 1-56836-101-7. The author's "...compulsively readable history of the evolution of modern fashion is a marvelous investigation into the language of clothes" (cover blurb). read more
Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
"Read this for an art history paper on modernity and fashion. Well-written exploration of the history of the modern suit, especially in regards to how women's clothes have evolved over the last two centuries - not just what we wear but how we feel wearing it. Written from the viewpoint of an art historian."
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