Stitches in time : the story of the clothes we wear / Lucy Adlington.
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TextPublisher: London : RH Books, 2015Description: ix, 454 pages, 8 pages unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781847947260 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Fashion -- History | Clothing and dress -- History | Beauty and Fashion | Beauty and FashionDDC classification: 391'.009 Summary: Opening this lavishly illustrated book is like stepping in to a dressing room and riffling through drawers and cupboards to pull out the items within. The reader then discovers what these pieces of clothing reveal about aesthetics, sex, gender, class and lifestyle through the ages. This a stylish tour of the most important developments and the most interesting oddments in the history of fashion, from ancient times to the present day, and is crammed with fascinating and eminently quotable facts.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Opening this lavishly illustrated book is like stepping in to a dressing room and riffling through drawers and cupboards to pull out the items within. The reader then discovers what these pieces of clothing reveal about aesthetics, sex, gender, class and lifestyle through the ages. This a stylish tour of the most important developments and the most interesting oddments in the history of fashion, from ancient times to the present day, and is crammed with fascinating and eminently quotable facts.
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