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Author: Hardy Amies
Publisher: Quartet Books (UK)
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 152
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn account of the development of the suit, from the seventeenth century to the present day, from the mysteries of button placement to the influences of princes and kings as early trend setters.
Author: Christopher Breward
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2016-04-15
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1780235585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA beautifully tailored history of this fashion staple—at once a garment of tradition, power, and subversion. 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.
Author: Guy Vanderhaeghe
Publisher: Emblem Editions
Published: 2010-12-17
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1551995700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Englishman’s Boy brilliantly links together Hollywood in the 1920s with one of the bloodiest, most brutal events of the nineteenth-century Canadian West – the Cypress Hills Massacre. Vanderhaeghe’s rendering of the stark, dramatic beauty of the western landscape and of Hollywood in its most extravagant era – with its visionaries, celebrities, and dreamers – provides vivid background for scenes of action, adventure, and intrigue. Richly textured, evocative of time and place, this is an unforgettable novel about power, greed, and the pull of dreams that has at its centre the haunting story of a young drifter – “the Englishman’s boy” – whose fate, ultimately, is a tragic one.
Author: Christopher Breward
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Published: 2002-04
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Englishness of English Dress examines the ways in which fashion and dress might be considered in the context of national identities as they apply in England.
Author: George Vicesimus WIGRAM
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Published: 1843
Total Pages: 1802
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hardy Amies
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781851775569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor all men, and indeed all women who are interested in men's clothes - here is an alphabetical guide to men's fashion written with wit and expert knowledge. From the etiquette of dressing to the meaning of technical terms, Hardy Amies' skilful eye guides you safely through style decisions on everything from blazers and brogues to skiing and sandals. No man can afford to be without this classic style bible, now published in a handsome cloth-bound special edition.
Author: George V. Wigram
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 1210
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Colman
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Published: 1859
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Laura Ugolini
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1351918257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite increasing academic interest in both the study of masculinity and the history of consumption, there are still few published studies that bring together both concerns. By investigating the changing nature of the retailing of menswear, this book illuminates wider aspects of masculine identity as well as patterns of male consumption between the years 1880 and 1939. While previous historical studies of masculinity have focused overwhelmingly on the moral, spiritual and physical characteristics associated with notions of 'manliness', this book considers the relationship between men and activities which were widely considered to be at least potentially 'unmanly' - selling, as well as buying clothes - thus shedding new light on men's lives and identities in this period.
