The Suit – Form, Function and Style : Form, Function and Style

Name: The Suit – Form, Function and Style
Brand: Reaktion Books
SKU: 9781780235233
Price: 4500 KES
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ISBN: 9781780235233

by Professor Christopher Breward

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 1780235232

ISBN-13 9781780235233

Publisher Reaktion Books

Imprint Reaktion Books

Country of Manufacture IN

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 1st, 2016

Print length 240 Pages

Weight 758 grams

Dimensions 16.80 x 24.80 x 2.40 cms

Product Classification: Fashion and textile design History of fashion Cultural studies: dress and society Fashion & society

KSh 4,500.00

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Beautifully illustrated and written with authority, Suit offers new perspectives on this most mundane, and at the same time poetic and beautiful, product of modern culture.

The Suit unpicks the story of this most familiar garment, 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 – from dandies and Sapeurs to the Zoot Suit and Le Smoking – the suit is also a device for challenging the status quo. For all those interested in the history of menswear, this beautifully illustrated book offers new perspectives on this most mundane, and poetic, product of modern culture.

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