Stitches in Time : The Story of the Clothes We Wear
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1847947271
ISBN-13
9781847947277
Publisher
Cornerstone
Imprint
Random House Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 11th, 2016
Print length
480 Pages
Weight
334 grams
Dimensions
13.00 x 19.80 x 3.00 cms
Product Classification:
Fashion and textile designHistory of fashionCultural studies: dress and societyFashion & society
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Reveals the stories underlying the clothes we wear in this stylish tour of the most important developments in the history of fashion, from ancient times to the present day. This title shows how the way we dress is inextricably bound up with considerations of aesthetics, sex, gender, class and lifestyle and more.
Riffling through the wardrobes of years gone by, costume historian Lucy Adlington reveals the rich stories underlying the clothes we wear in this stylish tour of the most important developments in the history of fashion, from ancient times to the present day.
Starting with underwear – did you know Elizabeth I owned just one pair of drawers, worn only after her death? – she moves garment by garment through Western attire, exploring both the items we still wear every day and those that have gone the way of the dodo (sugared petticoats, farthingales and spatterdashers to name but a few).
Beautifully illustrated throughout, and crammed with fascinating and eminently quotable facts, Stitches in Time shows how the way we dress is inextricably bound up with considerations of aesthetics, sex, gender, class and lifestyle – and offers us the chance to truly appreciate the extraordinary qualities of these, our most ordinary possessions.
Starting with underwear – did you know Elizabeth I owned just one pair of drawers, worn only after her death? – she moves garment by garment through Western attire, exploring both the items we still wear every day and those that have gone the way of the dodo (sugared petticoats, farthingales and spatterdashers to name but a few).
Beautifully illustrated throughout, and crammed with fascinating and eminently quotable facts, Stitches in Time shows how the way we dress is inextricably bound up with considerations of aesthetics, sex, gender, class and lifestyle – and offers us the chance to truly appreciate the extraordinary qualities of these, our most ordinary possessions.
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